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To answer your immediate question: your father didn't leave you
anything when he died if he didn't have a will.
If your father died intestate (without a will) and owned any
property at the time of his death, his property would be
distributed to his heirs-at-law according to the state laws of
intestacy. If he was not survived by a spouse then, generally, his
property would be distributed to his children and/or the children
of any deceased child. You can check the laws of his state at the
related question link below.
However, if your father died owning property his estate would need
to be probated. An Administrator would need to be appointed by the
probate court and THEN the Administrator would have the authority
to settle the estate and to distribute the property according to
state laws after the payment of any debts.
You can check to see if a probate was ever filed in your father's
estate by contacting the probate court that serves his jurisdiction
by telephone or in person and asking a clerk to check the index for
a file under your father's name. If a probate file exists you can
go to the court and review the file. It should contain an inventory
of your father's assets and a record of the distribution.
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