Dear Abby: My kids never got their money from my grandmother's will

A Dear Abby reader wants to know how to delicately inquire about her grandmother's will.

DEAR ABBY: My grandmother passed away 16 years ago. Before she passed, she told me and my two kids that she had an account for each of them for their college. After she was gone, my aunt was in charge of her will. My kids never got their money, and my aunt would never let me see my grandmother’s will.

I heard my grandmother ask my aunt if she had filed her will at the courthouse, and my aunt told her she did. But when I went to the courthouse, the will was not on file. How do I raise the subject of my kids’ inheritance with my aunt? Right now, I’m living with her. How do I do this without causing an argument in the family? — OWED IN GEORGIA

DEAR OWED: If you were named in your grandmother’s will,