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It will depend upon the terms of the will. Given your relatively young age, your inheritance may be placed in a trust and an administrator assigned to manage it for you.

Is the Will you located a copy? A notary cannot acknowledge a signature that does not exist. Neither can witnesses sign a document purporting to witness a signature that does not exist. I can only assume you have located a copy. Many lawyers do not like to make a copy of a Will that includes the signature of the testator. The original Will with the testators original signature and the original signature of the witnesses is required for a probate. There is a procedure for filing a copy of the Will and proving that the original Will existed, that the original Will cannot be located and was not revoked by the testator, but there is a heavy burden of proof.