by delton » Sun Mar 11, 2012 5:11 am
When judicially separated the parties are as two individual entities and are taxed as such, the only difference from single people is that they may not remarry. The children do not have any claim on the property of a separated father in the same way as all children do not have a claim on their parents property when the come of age. In the case of the death of a separated parent and in the absence of a will any right to the property must be decided by a court.