Letters to the Editor
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Two birds
He's getting almost $10,000 of his own. He's now got the means to fix his own life, assuming money is all it takes. Your share was earmarked for you. Take the money.
Hopefully you do have a check, in your name, waiting for you at the executor's office. Hopefully it won't involve lawyers and accusations from your ex and a long court battle. But in case it does, figure out now what kind of headache it's worth to you. How much do you want to fight for what's yours? Or do you think the grandmother wouldn't have given you anything if she'd known about the breakup?
She thought you deserved the money because you loved and lived with and made a life with her grandson. The fact that that life is over doesn't change the fact that it existed. Take the money.