My uncle(exe.) who is on my grams bank account which is all her money to pay the bills every month. Now that she has passed away and knowing that it is not mentioned in will and does not have to be cause it is a joint account. The reasons I ask is the house which he sold for 70,000 is to be split evenly between the kids besides my uncle2x for being exe. paid the bills .fees and etc. from the sale and now 43,000 left to split. When she passed there was 30,000 in bank account.... What happens to that money?
I hope you have the bank statements and other items to prove this. If you do, then you will have to hire your own probate atty who does litigation to challenge your uncle & before probate is closed. Time is of the essence if you do this. Like get an atty ASAP. It pretty well needs to be one who does probate litigation. Will cost. Estate under 100k is pretty low value to warrant a challenge IMO, but if you have the $ go for it.
If probate has closed out and distribution done, it's going to be much harder. My experience is that for any distribution there will be paperwork sent to beneficiaries with w-9 and a statement that they accept the terms of the distribution. If others have accepted their check, they are accepting how the estate has been handled; how probate was done. There will be judges orders for approval all this too.
Really look at all the items in the docket. Probate is open court with public access to items filed. Could be all $ was spent on Grans house, bills, funeral, taxes. Etc.
So those 7 years you lived with grannie, were you paid for caregiving? Did you receive $ from gran or your uncle for caregiving? all done with taxes filed? I ask this cause if all was not done on the up & up, your uncle, if he wanted to go all nuclear on you, well he could file a w-2 on you for those payments. You could find yourself owing the IRS.
So think carefully.......
My parents held their banking account in joint account...(WROS....meaning: with rights of survivorship).
So, when Dad passed....I notified the bank (I am POA for mom and was for Dad too). The account was frozen for about a week while they did the paperwork and removed my Dad from the account. I waited till the last check I was expecting for Dad...then let the bank do it. New checks were issued. Ta Da .. done
Mom and I have set this whole thing up between the two of us...both ways. She is joint on my accounts, I am joint on hers. That way (god forbid) if I go first, my assets will continue to help Mom.
I had a joint account with my Dad, so I could write check for him. I never co-mingled any of my own money into said account nor did I take any money out for myself. My Dad had caregivers, and Independent Living/Assisted Living which took big bites out of the balance in that account.
If it was joint and POD (pay on death) to the other, then when grannie died the balance of 30k passed ownership to your uncle and the 30k passed outside of probate, so it was NOT a part of her estate.
It it was not POD, then her share of ownership would be a part of her estate.
You can easily find out which it is by looking at the probate court docket of documents submitted. It would be in the "Assets of the Estate" document which is submitted to the court and signed off by probate judge. If you are not in agreement with the asset listing, you kinda need to hire your own probate atty who does litigation to challenge the orders signed off by the judge...... it will cost to do this both $ and the goodwill of the court.