I need information regarding a death benefit. I am trustee to an estate but the death benefit was given to the previous

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I am sorry for your loss and to hear of this difficult situation.

Is it possible that the money went to pay for the funeral?

Have you asked the previous trustees what happened?

Yes I understood that but I asked you if you asked them what happened to the money and could the money have gone to pay for the funeral?

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Yes. You can contact CPP to find out what happened with that cheque. You can also have them charged with fraud and you can also sue them civilly.

You are now fully in charge of the estate. You will have to prove to CPP that you are so have your documentation ready and you might have to send it over to them.

Does that help?

Your first step would be to call the local police.

Yes exactly.

But the bot***** *****ne is that both of those trustees are going to be equally liable. They both owed the estate and beneficiaries a fiduciary duty.

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