I truly don't know where to ask this on line as it's not actually directly financial advice or anything.
My dad was hit by a car & killed while vacationing in Mexico. My aunt (his sister) kind of did all the initial work. She was the one that went down to Mexico to ID him, get his luggage back, contacted funeral home etc. Initially getting his death certificate was difficult because it was in Spanish & according to the funeral home it didn't count until they got it from Mexico translated into English, and cremating him was delayed for like maybe a week because of this.
We still have been unable to get a copy of his autopsy report and my aunt says she is now dealing with the US consulate to get Mexico to hand it over. He always told me I was in his pension but I don't even know how to check on that or whatever, I was told by my aunt that I can only get the pension if we get the autopsy. I'm next of kin, and when she went down to Mexico to ID him they first told her that she basically couldn't officially ID him that it would have to be his kids, but she told them we were minors so that she could just do it. I'm 25 & my sister is 22.
I'm not really asking anything in particular I was just wondering if anybody else has had something similar happen or knows how to deal with the complications from a situation like this where the death occurred out of the country. Right now I'm just kind of letting my aunt handle it but I'd like to make sure this stuff is going down correctly I just don't know anything about it. If it matters he was a resident of Michigan, 49, and he was in the bricklayers union.
Submitted March 07, 2018 at 01:50PM by pentillionaire http://ift.tt/2tocoll
