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This asset should be sold in probate. Since you do not agree that is best. Hopefully the executor agrees to sell, otherwise you will need to file a petition in curt to require that. I urge you to retain counsel.

Probably none, but in a creditor claim for half the value property increased in value the last 5 yrs; you will probably have to follow up with a lawsuit in probate court to enforce your claim; must be filed within a year, not after. Get yourself a probate litigation lawyer.

Although estate law varies from state to state, usually when a person dies intestate with surviving spouse and child(ren), at least some portion of the assets are split between the two. However, a decedents assets must first be applied to any debts and taxes he owed at the time of his death and only then would anything left would be distributed to the heirs. Since you were a minor at the time, your inheritance (if any) was probably put into a trust with your step-mother (or perhaps your mother if she was still living) as trustee. Those funds should have been used to cover the cost of your upbringing (food, shelter, clothing, medical and dental care, education, etc.) until you reached the age of majority. If there were any funds left, that money should have been transferred to you.