Depend on the items and size of the estate ( this can take from a month to years and years). Once all accounted for the legal process can be done in a couple of weeks to a month.
few weeks
120 days
if you have our executors you will never get your money
it will go to probate and the courts will have a long list of things for you to do before any money is awarded.
how long it takes to send or receive swift money
Until the insured age 100
Probate can be a long process. At a minimum it will take about 4 months. There are some estates that are still open after decades of work.
As long as you did not make your beneficiary irrevocable, you can just change your beneficiary. If your beneficiary is irrevocable you are out of luck unless you can get them to authorize the change.
Yes, with a but. As long a a beneficiary is named for the policy and that beneficiary is alive then creditors cannot touch the proceeds. If a beneficiary is NOT named or has died, then the benefits are paid to the INSURED persons estate. A persons estate will go to their next of kin, but NOT before creditors take what is owed to them.
Yes. A beneficiary who refuses to release their demands in an estate cannot delay the process for long. The executor can ask for a hearing on the final account and the court will allow it even though all the beneficiaries have not signed releases.
No this is too long contact them immediately maybe they didn't get the proof you sent in. See what the hold up is.
As long as the will was properly drafted and is allowed by the court the executor and the beneficiary can be the same person.