Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in Pennsylvania

Re: mothers death

The will should have been probated [filed] and her estate administered soon after her death.

Minors are not legally capable of holding money or owning property. Whatever was left for you and your sisters, if they were also minors, should have been placed in a trust administered by a trustee.

You may check with the Register of Wills for the county where your mother resided at the time of her death to find out if the Will was probated, and also to ask if a Trust was created. From the records at the Register of Wills, you will be able to find out who the Executor of the estate was, and possibly who the Trustee was.

You are entitled to demand an accounting from both, but unless you have just attained majority, the time may have passed for you to take such action.

Consult with an estates lawyer in your county.

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