[Livia]

It is very sad, although lostalex has it right when he says that if he had made a will, things would be different. The outcome could have been the same if the couple involved were unmarried heterosexuals and one of them died intestate.

Steig Larsson, who wrote The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo died suddenly leaving his female partner Eva Gabrielsson. They never married and he never made a will and regardless of the fact they had lived together for thirty years and she'd been instrumental in helping him write his books, every penny from those books go to his brother and father and she gets nothing.

Sometimes people are just b*stards.