I have just discovered that the state of WV (and many others!) has a law that if you die without a will (husband won't write one), the spouse gets 50% and a child from husband's other marriage gets 50%, and your birth children gets NOTHING! My husband's exwife had to get a court order to force him to marry her (preggy at 17) on his 18th birthday. I was no where in the picture. Their marriage lasted around 5 years then they divorced. My marriage to him 39 years and I am told that everything we have will have to be sold and given half to the child from the previous marriage... What gives?