Common law rights or daughter as next of kin?

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can anyone help me with this please? My uncle died recently, with no will found and one daughter who is his next of kin. he was living with a woman for 3 years at the time, but her name was not on any paperwork or utility bill whatsoever. does she have any legal rights to his estate at all?
My cousin has let her stay at the property for the time being, but now wants her out as she needs to sell the property. the reason for this is that it is in quite a bad state of repair and would cost my cousin too much to fix up. my cousin has been very patient with this woman, but the woman is now being encouraged by her family to make a claim on his estate. does she have any rights at all to do this?
It is my opinion that she does not since there is no evidence of her living there in terms of names on documents and she has never contributed financially as my uncle supported her, but i would like some advice so that i can help my cousin.
 
as far as I know it would be next of kin over common law rights. Usually if a state has common law it is 7 years of living together as man and wife. So, just from what I've always heard it should go to the daughter and not her based on your story also.
 
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