Q: Mother died intestate. Son was appointed administrator. We want to sell her home. We have a pending offer.

A: I don't think any move you can make regarding your Title issue can be resolved fast. Unless you quickly find all the heirs from the 1st wife, so they can sign-off, sell, or waive their possible rights to the property.

There is a solution, but it would require litigation ( a lawsuit ), and finding a lot of people, and getting service on all possible heirs. That solution would surely take at least 4-6 months, with everyone being diligent and helpful. That usually does not happen when there is an Estate to be distributed.

I hope this helps.

Good Luck!

A: If the late husband was in fact the executor of his late wife’s estate, you ought to be able to look in the probate court records where his late wife’s estate was probated to get a copy of her will and determine who is named as an heir to the home. If the home was their community property, they were married at the time of the late wife’s death. So where the home is located is where she most likely lived at the time of her death. That tells you what county’s probate court records you should look in.

You also say the home was the community property of your mother and her late husband. That indicates he must have bought it from other heirs of his late wife sometime after her death and during his marriage to your mother. If he had inherited it from his late wife, it would be his separate property. So there must also be a deed recorded in the county records from those heirs to him.