The state the estate is in and the bank is here in PA. Even though my friend died in Florida, he had everything set up here, he still owend a house and did his buisness here. Thought maybe this info. would be helpful in your search, I am not intendeding on sounding combative.
leelisa, I remember in a previous post that has been edited, that you sent info to a different state. That state would be FL. Florida does have provisions for ancillary estates, that is very easy (at least for me) to look up info for FL. On-line Pennsylvania Code is a pain in the you know what.
Major banks have branches all over the country, that would include both FL & PA. Establishing if FL had an ancillary probate opened on the deceased can be done by me in a few clicks and keystrokes.
Thus, would you please activate your Private Messaging (PM) here on this forum. I want to ask you a few things that should not be posted on the open forum. You, at your discretion, can post on the open forum anything I say & ask in those PM's. I will not disclose any information discussed between us in those PM's. I have never disclosed personal info on this forum and will not do so. Should I do so, the administrator of this forum is authorized to terminate my membership.
The only thing I would post is findings
without any personal info due to the interest in this thread. For example, what state governs your son's money; if the court allows the money controller to release funds at his/her/discretion (which would be written in black & white as I previously have said); etc.
Not only will you be saving a lot in attorney fees, you'll have your answers for free. Other persons that I have helped or have sought my assistance via PM have offered to pay me. I declined, as that is NOT the purpose of this forum. I told them if they so wanted to, to send a donation to my favorite charity: Hospice of Palm Beach County. (Yes, Mother Mary, you can check.)
leelisa, Mary is the administrator here. Send me a PM when you enable the PM feature in your CP (control panel). I already know what FL Statutes say regarding all this, without looking them up. I will post that info anyway, later.
For those of you reading this, please do not send leelisa PM's harassing/telling her off. Let me get to the bottom of this for her son's sake.