If you already gotten GP, go to bank, they will release money.

Btw, do you have the accounts written down on the iventory list attached together with GP? If you dont have, bankd likely wont release fund until u reamend the inventroy (ie go court again).

This is real life experience. I was having difficulties to obtain account numbers. Some banks even want FD cert number to be on the inventory which is crazy. This is hard to obtain when someone passed away. No one record down the list of FD certs thry have. So what i had to do is to search for physical fd cert and include in inventory. When banks told me some are missing,i had to reamend the inventory.

The banks are just protecting themselves. In case anything happen, they could be sued for releasing funds wrongly without a correct court document (GP or LA).

But i do get frustrated with some banks. First, they are unwilling to disclose account no if we dont have a GP/LA. After we get GP/LA only they willing to inform the accounts no which are to be included in the inventory. So we need to resubmit to court for amendment.

Also, some banks suck to the max because they said we have to go individual branch to get the account info. Some banks are good to search all accounts for us, but some are just sucks (maybank especially)

Exactly. I work in a bank i know how the system works.
So basically they are just unwilling to cooperate and divulge info on behalf of another branch. Having said so, when come to recovery of money, still need to go back to individual branches.

Keep a list of your accounts. Tell the one you trust the most.

At least when something happen, someone knows which bank to go to.
Imagine the need to dig thru the personal belonging of the deceased, sad and troublesome at same time. Moreover, nowadays no more physical statement, might struggle to find which banks.

Also, phone unlock pattern make sure someone knows, else phone/email also cannot access.

The first problem will be how to get Senarai Asset.
With GP, all banks will cooperate.
But to have the inventory list first, u need to go to banks but without GP they will have reservation to help u.

This post has been edited by Kyan0411: Jul 16 2020, 10:01 PM

Some banks are very strict on this. If not on inventory they wont release. Experience with Maybank. Had to amend inventory and go to court again.

Weird. My lawyer wants us to find out ourself. Of course he can do a search but that would be different $$, like % charge of total assets (similar to Amanahraya)

In the end, we search the banks on our own with the original copy of will.

This post has been edited by Kyan0411: Jul 16 2020, 10:50 PM

This is exactly the issue I had. If you as executor going to bank, banks might not layan. You need a lawyer to do all those for you despite the lawyer said the banks should divulge the info but some banks are just not comfortable.

Nonentheless, managed to get all those done.