What is the name of your state? NC but Will was in AK
This is perhaps an odd situation ... I was seriously involved with a man several years back and became close to his dad, who adored my daughter. When the relationship ended his dad and I remained close. My friend was not in the best of health so he spent winters here in NC and summers in Alaska. Three years ago my friend passed away from his 3rd major heart attack while he was in Alaska.
He bought several Savings Bonds for my daughter and not long before he died he wrote me a letter saying that he had made arrangements for her in his Will. After he died his youngest son, who was the executor, allowed us to remove my daughter's bedroom suite from the house, and the 2 bonds that had been in her jewelry box were gone. When I asked him about it he said that he didn't know anything about the bonds or her being in the Will.
I didn't like it, but didn't know how to fight it, really. I tried for more than a year to make contact with him to see if the bonds turned up as he cleaned out the house. He never responded to email or phone calls.
A few months ago I sent a request to the treasury dept asking them to research her savings bonds. They found eight. This leads me to believe that my friend's son did lie to me. I'm trying to get them reissued, even though, I'm supposed to get the executor's signature, though I can't seem to contact him. Today, I sent him a return receipt requested letter regarding the Treasury Dept forms.
How do I go about finding out for myself about the will? I know where my friend's home address in Alaska was, but I have no clue who the attorney was.
And just to head off the suspicion at the pass ... I'm not trying to get the money for myself. We want to put it in her 529 college fund.
This is perhaps an odd situation ... I was seriously involved with a man several years back and became close to his dad, who adored my daughter. When the relationship ended his dad and I remained close. My friend was not in the best of health so he spent winters here in NC and summers in Alaska. Three years ago my friend passed away from his 3rd major heart attack while he was in Alaska.
He bought several Savings Bonds for my daughter and not long before he died he wrote me a letter saying that he had made arrangements for her in his Will. After he died his youngest son, who was the executor, allowed us to remove my daughter's bedroom suite from the house, and the 2 bonds that had been in her jewelry box were gone. When I asked him about it he said that he didn't know anything about the bonds or her being in the Will.
I didn't like it, but didn't know how to fight it, really. I tried for more than a year to make contact with him to see if the bonds turned up as he cleaned out the house. He never responded to email or phone calls.
A few months ago I sent a request to the treasury dept asking them to research her savings bonds. They found eight. This leads me to believe that my friend's son did lie to me. I'm trying to get them reissued, even though, I'm supposed to get the executor's signature, though I can't seem to contact him. Today, I sent him a return receipt requested letter regarding the Treasury Dept forms.
How do I go about finding out for myself about the will? I know where my friend's home address in Alaska was, but I have no clue who the attorney was.
And just to head off the suspicion at the pass ... I'm not trying to get the money for myself. We want to put it in her 529 college fund.