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I would like to know if she gets half of what he had and then it is split with nieces and nephews? Or is it all the same?
He had a document for his house that said the house is to be sold and will be distributed with names on it, however not for his money. He did not write all his worldly possessions just the house had to be sold. I just didn’t know the how the money would be distributed among the relatives.
If no will was written, the Gesetzliche Erbfolge is followed. It has different orders of heirs.
The first order with living members is used, here the second order (§1925 BGB). That means his parents are each assigned half of his estate. Since they no longer live this is inherited by his parent's immediate descendants to equal parts (your mother/aunts/uncles), if those are no longer alive that part is further inherited by their descendants, and so on.
That means you will not inherit anything as your mother is still alive. If your mother has two siblings with living descendants, she will inherit one third.
