After My Husband Passed Away, I Was Devastated to Discover We Were Never Legally Married—and I Had No Right to His Inheritance
When my husband died after twenty-seven years together, I thought I’d already experienced life’s deepest pain. But grief wasn’t the hardest part—it was discovering that, legally, our marriage never existed, and everything we’d built together wasn’t mine to keep. I was about to lose my home, my security, and the future I thought we shared—until…