Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in Pennsylvania

If you were the named beneficiary of the life insurance policy, you need to take this up with the insurance company. It should have issued the proceeds to you. If it did not know how to reach you, it may have communicated with the executor. But the executor does not have the right to hold on to an asset that should not have gone to the estate to begin with.

Find out why the executor is demanding title to the car. Had the deceased loaned you money to buy the car and there was some kind of writing confirming that? If so, the executor may be seeking repayment by you to the estate, if the will did not have a provision about loans by the deceased.

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These are two completely different things. i have no idea why the executor is demanding title to the car. If the car is in your name, then the car is yours unless there was some kind of contract between you and the deceased whereby you were obligated to pay for the car and still own money.

With regard to life insurance, if the executor will not give you the check, contact the insurance company and get them to stop payment on the check and re-issue it to you.