Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in Pennsylvania
I need to get the names changed on a stock dividend since it is in my parents' name and they are deceased. How do I do that?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Their estates should have been administered. In the course of estate administration, assets that they owned should have been retitled. If the shares were left to you, the shares should have been transferred to your name. Then the stock dividends would be paid to you, as the owner of the shares.
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