I'm starting to think the Vikings were on to something

[mirandaflynn]

Pile up the belongings of the dead and have a nice big blaze. Argh. I spent today going between the courthouse and the DMV to file probate on Mom's car, then transfer the title to Aunt. Now, after the title gets here, I have to go BACK to the courthouse and close probate. I also called the two hospitals that oversaw her final care to request

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[lavendertook]

I'm starting to think the Vikings were on to something
Pile up the belongings of the dead and have a nice big blaze. Argh.

Ahahaha! You are great! (-:

[cephalophore]

My dad still had stuff to do for his mom's "estate" (she didn't even own her trailer when she passed!) a decade later. He keeps the paperwork in a "Carrie 2" movie folder I got with a presskit once in college.

[sister_sheena]

My German great-aunt died in 1991, leaving soem money to her sister (my grandmother) who died about 18 months later, before the estate had been finalised. The (German) executor, who was family-in-law, started getting premature-onset Alzheimers at about this time, and died some time later. It took about ten years - and a lot of "yadda yadda" - for my mother & uncles to get the money.

[jonesiexxx]

It takes forever. I still remember the anvil lifting from my chest when the last major bureacratic hurdle was cleared.

Hang in, honey. Bite-sized bits.

*tosses bureaucrats on the fire*

[mirandaflynn]

Bite-sized bureaucrats?