re: I am heartbroken and angry this morning.

That sucks. We had a similar situation in my family. My great-uncle didn't have any children and had verbally told my uncle he was going to leave his portion of family land to him. My great-uncle was sick for a long time and even had some dementia before he passed.

At some point, before he passed, my great-aunt had him change his will and leave his land to a member of her family who has no blood relation to people from which the land came.

My great-uncle had never had his 100 acres cut and had some of the largest pine trees I'd seen. The first thing the new owner did was have the land clear cut and moved trailers on the land for him and all his trashy kids.