Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in Michigan

Hello.

My mother passed away 2 weeks ago. The only thing she owned was her house valued around 55,000-60,000 (Purchased for 21,000), the furnishings in the house which are dated and of no value, some custume jewerly, nick nacs of no value, (from Walmarts, K-marts, TJ MAXX, etc) and some stock which is valued around 4,000. There are some checks we found that were not cashed from 07 but we are not sure if they were lost and mom had them reissued. They total around 800.00.

We have a Quitclaim Deed we have not filed yet that lists my sister and I as "With Rights of Survivorship". We want to file this then take the small estate to Probate so we can get this done in a quickly manner and get the name's on the stock switched to my self and my sister. We are the sole survivors of the mom and dad and there is an old will that states that everything be divided between the two of us upon their deaths. This was written when we were still small children.

What is the quickest and best way to go about resolving my mom's estate. There is no one contesting anything and my sister and I are in agreement with everything. Funeral has been paid for.

Please help and we are being told at least 4 different things and have an uncle that is putting pressure on us due to advice from his "attorney friend". He is telling us that he wants us to make him executor of the estate and this is going to be a long and dragged out process with many court dates and filings. We don't see how and he won't explain what will take so long.

thank you very much,

Confused and Hurting in MI

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