[William Terrell]

It may be important to recovery if the auntie distributed anything before your grandmother-in-law passed away. The POA will have been in force until then.

[Trust but Verify]

I don't think that is the case, but we won't know until we get copies of bank statements, etc. I would think the banks would have to cooperate with us given our legal standing vs. Auntie Dearest.