Recently my grandmother passed away and my uncle had power of attorney. My mother is to get half of sale from the house and items. The items contain lot's of jewelry and a huge stamp and coin collection. My uncle told my mother it was going to take him a year or two to get the coins and jewellery appraised. He already packed up all the coins,stamps and jewelry into a safe and is going to be returning home to another state with them. By NJ laws isn't there a certain reasonable time limit that the items are to be sold. I don't think it would be fair to make the other party wait for their share.

You have the right to ask for a full inventory before they are taken of course, an has a probate case been opened.
Next sorry for your uncle but power of attorney ended at the death of the grandmother, so either the will or the probate court has to name who is going to take care of the estate, he can not legally do the estate with a old power of attorney..

And you have the right as a heir, ( if you are) to have your own attorney to represent you in probate court

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Originally Posted by tluggiero

Recently my grandmother passed away and my uncle had power of attorney. My mother is to get half of sale from the house and items. The items contain lot's of jewelry and a huge stamp and coin collection. My uncle told my mother it was gonna take him a year or two to get the coins and jewelery appraised. He already packed up all the coins,stamps and jewelry into a safe and is going to be returning home to another state with them. By NJ laws isn't there a certain reasonable time limit that the items are to be sold. I don't think it would be fair to make the other party wait for their share.

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I'm not sure of terminology, guess power of attorney was wrong, but per my grandmothers will he has 100% executor, I guess is what I was looking for.No, a probate case has not been opened. I don't think my mom wants to stir things up as her brother(my uncle) has been rushing things along. He doesn't even want to take the time to let my mother see all the stuff that he locked up before she arrived to clean out the house.