Q: I am the personal representative for my parents’ estate. Does their credit union have to let me transact on the account
They have all necessary papers to prove I am personal representative. My parents’ estate is receiving stock dividend checks and the credit union is rejecting them. They refuse to deposit anything saying that I cannot transact on the account. It is difficult to get everything changed over to the estate account at another bank (they will not handle estate accounts) when I didn’t know all of the investments my parents had made.
Occasionally, there is a dividend check that I knew nothing about that comes in. I am wanting them to deposit the check. This way I can move it to the estate account and then take action to change the deposit information for future deposits. I was under the impression that as personal representative, I could act as them to carry out financial transaction for the estate.
A: Try contacting the issuers of the stock dividend checks and tell them that your parents are deceased. Provide death certificates and letters of administration and get them to re-issue the checks to you as PR of the estate(s) and then you can deposit the dividend checks to the estate account.
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