Ask a solicitor: What happens when your spouse leaves you out of the will?

Dear Karen,

My husband died recently and made a will shortly before he died, and he left me €1,000. We were still married and lived together in the same house, but we lived very separate lives. All the assets were in his name, including the farmland and the family home.  He farmed, and I looked after the children and home. 

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