Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Good or bad idea Date: 16 Jun 2015 21:06:36 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: <150620151857071225%timstreater@greenbee.net> <160620151020211902%timstreater@greenbee.net> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net +WE4qK9VkNyyFSxSmXth6QOhFuNJ9ELnU050578ZXIg+SEZTIP Cancel-Lock: sha1:P9xzh302tgkqyaR/RRMkijW4B0Y= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:76705 On 2015-06-16, Tim Streater wrote: > In article , John > wrote: > >>On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 18:57:07 +0100, Tim Streater >> wrote: >> >>>In article , Huge >>> wrote: >>> >>>>On 2015-06-15, John wrote: >>>> >>>>[17 lines snipped] >>>> >>>>> If the survivor needs or likes an account, let them just *use* it. I >>>>> use my wife's email account after three years. I don't send anything >>>>> from it I just keep it because it's a nice name and I think it would >>>>> be creepy to let anyone else have it. >>>> >>>>My mother still uses my 10-years-dead father's AOL account, for the >>>>same reasons as you. >>>> >>>>> With the money accounts in banks, you should enable the surviving >>>>> spouse to be able to access those online to drain them into her >>>>> accounts. If she can do that, and stop or move any direct debits and >>>>> standing orders then it doesn't *matter* whether the account is closed >>>>> or not. >>>> >>>>There's a process for this already; it's called "probate". >>> >>>Exactly. Once you have a grant of probate from the High Court, along >>>with the properly certified copies of the death cert, and you are the >>>executor, the banks etc have to do as they're told. >> >> Oh, really? Do the *banks* know about this? > > They appeared to when SWMBO was executor for her mother's estate last > year. I am presently co-executor of my MIL's estate. Other than the fact that each financial institution has different forms, procedures and ID requirements, they're all doing as they're told. Even the aforementioned pustulent baboon's rectums. -- Today is Boomtime, the 21st day of Confusion in the YOLD 3181 I don't have an attitude problem. If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.