No one can force you to open an estate. Here I agree with the attorneys you have already consulted. Why should you do the work just to pay the money to the creditors?The only thing that may be worth doing is to open the estate in order to pay the funeral bill. How much was that and who paid? That person can open the estate and recover their expense but will then be responsible for seeing that any extra money goes to pay the other creditors.
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It is correct that funeral expenses come out first. The vehicle could be part of the reimbursement for the funeral expenses and that would solve the title problem. Sorry but the already tried did not come up until just now. I would think it is worth opening a small estate process to recover the 6,000.
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