I'm wondering if anyone on here is estranged from their immediate family and what was their experience explicitly when their parents died and had to deal with inheritance? My parents are divorced and my father (and whatever family there is left) I have in recent years walked away from. Occasionally, I ponder on what happens in regards to inheritance when he dies between my stepmother, full brother and half brother. I don't see any of them. I'm assuming I won't be on his will but I am not interested in any inheritance.

Has anyone else been in this situation and how did you approach it? What actually happens? Would I be contacted by a lawyer or something?