Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in Maryland

Re: Uncooperative POA

A PoA ceases its existence at the death of the grantor and it is at this time that a probate estate may be needed (i.e., real estate, other property, etc.)

The sale of the real estate can be traced through property deeds. Other co-mingling of funds may be related to a lapse of accounts.

Please contact my office should a personal representative want to come forward to represent the estate.

Re: Uncooperative POA

If this is a Maryland estate, on receipt of actual notice of the Grantor's death, the POA agency stops

Send your brother a certified letter deatiling your alarm and demanding he turn over all paperwork by a date certain. If he does not ask the Orphans' Court to schedule the matter for hearing

Be careful as co-owned assets incluing co owned accounts DO NOT normally come into the estate

Re: Uncooperative POA

If this is a Maryland Probate matter, you should formally notify this person of the authority you now have to marshall the assets, and let him know that you will seek a Court order if he continues to be contemptuous. You can do this yourself or seek legal assistance. It is common for an executor to engage a lawfirm to administer an estate, in part, to deal with these types of unpleasant issues and behaviors by others.