Catharine Edwards and her father, John, attend the funeral of Elizabeth Edwards, Dec. 10, 2010, in Raleigh, N.C. A new will, put in place less than a week before Elizabeth's death, made Catharine the executor and left nothing to John.
Elizabeth Edwards cut her estranged husband John out of her will six days before she died.
Everything she owned would be divided among her three living children with her eldest, Catharine, as executor, the new will dated Dec. 1, 2010 declared.
“All of my furniture, furnishings, household goods, jewelry, china, silverware and personal effects and any automobiles” would go to daughters Catharine, 28, and Emma, 12, and son Jack, 10.
Other documents valued her belongings at $496,000 U.S., according to The Associated Press, and her real estate at $1 million. A trust fund in her name had an undisclosed worth.
The will, revealed Thursday by Inside Edition , names Catharine as guardian for her brother and sister.
Whether that will stick is an open question, a legal blog had reported last June in an account of Edwards seeking to make Catharine, a lawyer, their legal guardian.
No mention is made in her final will of husband John, a U.S. vice presidential and presidential candidate. The couple separated in early 2010, after John finally admitted to fathering a child during an affair.
Elizabeth Edwards’ first attack of breast cancer was confirmed in 2004, just before the election her husband and John Kerry lost.
The cancer returned in March 2007, during John Edwards’ run for a presidential nomination. That October, reports first surfaced of his affair.
The 61-year-old Edwards died Dec. 7 of metastatic breast cancer, according to a death certificate, also released.
Her first memoir, Saving Graces , was about how friends and strangers helped her through her life, including the death of a son and her struggle with cancer treatment. Her second, Resilience , recounted her humiliation over John Edwards’ affair.
“She could bring out the brave in anyone,” Catharine said in a eulogy at her funeral.
John Edwards attended the funeral but did not speak.
She was buried at Oakwood Cemetery, in Raleigh, N.C., beside her son Wade, who died at age 16 in a car accident.
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