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Originally Posted by 911/914gary
Looking to the community brain trust’s opinion. My wife and I do not qualify for Cares Act checks due to our incomes. However, we both got checks to our deceased parents. They would both qualify if living. My wife’s father passed away prior to 2018 tax filing date. As executor for his estate she filed 2018 taxes for him as deceased. The Cares Act check we received is pay to the order of his name, and flagged “DECD”, plus her name. Does this mean since she is executor of the trust can the check be cashed by her?
On the same token my mother passed away. But she passed shortly after the 2018 filing date. So the IRS doesn’t flag her as deceased yet. So her check is pay to order to only her name. This is probably a stretch, but if the above case is acceptable, could this check be cashed by me since I am the executor of my mother's estate?
I know any answer is not official. But I just wanted to hear other thoughts on this.
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