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Does a deceased wife, who has children and a husband, inherit from her living parents' estate?

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A woman who dies before her living parents does not inherit from them, because the deceased does not inherit from the living; rather, the living inherits from the deceased. Her parents will inherit from her estate: her father gets one-sixth and her mother gets one-sixth if she had children. She has no share in their inheritance due to her death before them.

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