Hi,im hoping to find some answers to some very hard questions,all help very welcome.After losing my mum to cancer in a very sudden 6 weeks from diagnosis to her passing im speechless at the lack of protection for people that get diagnosed with this horrible disease and have very little time to put their affairs in order. This is the background,my mum lived with her partner of eight years in his house without their ever being a mention of marriage but soon as my mum was diagnosed he asked her out of the blue,we was told it was because she had never gotten rid of the previous marital name and that her current partner wanted no financial gain when my mother passed,so somehow a speedy ceremony was organised by him(let's called him red) at his house and me and my brother were asked not to attend,the ceremony happened,no public notice given,and two weeks later my mother suddenly passed away at home. Red was then declared her next of kin and not only gained all life insurances,pensions etc but had her remains buried in a plot in a church miles away at the back of a farm where his family members are buried,we had no input or any say in this,also all her belongings are at his house still,her will was suddenly re written without anyone's prior knowledge to place a small amount of money and her house collateral (which my brother rented) into a trust which is overseen by red and my aunty,me and my brother have no control over it,we couldn't even raise a case for medical negligence against the hospital for thus misdiagnosis of the cancer as in the eyes of the law me and my brother were no longer my mums next of kin....Ive tried asking advice all over but no one knows how this ceremony was allowed or organised within a week without us even being there,surely there should be some law for people being allowed to get married at such short notice when they aren't 100 percent coherent and no family members were present...please help anyone,thankyou