This differ depending on where you live but usually it goes to your next of kin which would be your parents if they are alive. If they are not it goes to the next. So write a will if you want it to go to someone special.
The laws of intestacy will be applied. It will specify the distribution of the assets.
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When someone dies without making a will the term is "to die intestate". In that case one's money and property is goes to their spouse or civil partner, their child/children, their parent, their brother or sister or to more distant relative.
It depends on local law, but in general if someone dies without a will and with no heirs, the estate devolves to the state.
When someone dies, the power of attorney becomes invalid and no longer holds any authority.
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The Alabama intestacy law will be applied. Typically that splits the estate between spouse and children once the debts are resolved.
Someone who dies without a valid will is said to have died intestate.
They can be sued.
someone dies and they have a funral for that person...
They get thrown into a ditch on the side of the interstate.