My mother contracted MS in 1968. I was two years old. My father took very good care of my mother her until she her death in 1999. When my mother died, my father took stepped up basis and liquidated most stocks and bonds. Given the market dive, this was a brilliant move. In the early 70's he began a relationship with another woman with whom he had my brother. We have all been on excellent terms and still are. He married my step-mother shortly after my mother died and reinvested everything. My father passed away in January. His will left my step-mother everthing. The problem is that he held onto some stock given to him by my mother's father as a wedding present. He never put my step-mother's name on the stock. Her accountant says she gets my father's basis but no step-up because her name is not on the stock. I say she gets stepped up basis.
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