Our mother died early this spring (of old age) and our brother and sister did not bother to tell us! Neither they nor their children, even though we are regularly on fb and have been all the time. Help, we have to be angry instead of starting the normal process of grief. And, the large properties and stuff, they have taken all the stuff they wanted by now and left us in the dark so they could have thrown out everything by now. yikes
I only found out because the notarius sent her will, and she wrote we are completely out of her will (for false pretenses, already settled in court several years ago)