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Originally Posted by Slamjammer
If you and your ex had not divorced, and he pre-deceased you intestate ...in other words, "without a will"...all the family assets would go to you, the surviving spouse. Your children would not get anything until you die. Unless you have a will that specifies otherwise, any remaining assets upon your death would be equally distributed to your children.
What your ex has done is basically the same thing.
If his second wife pre-deceases him, who is the executor? Typically it is the oldest child.
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Thanks for your reply. My ex's wife is much younger though - only about 10 years older than our son, so it's unlikely that that she would pre-decease my ex-husband. So when she dies the estate would go to her family who live in another country. (I had just envisaged that she would downsize if my ex passed as their home is quite big, which would enable an inheritance to be given to our son but I was mistaken).