Re: Legal issues
"How are they protecting the rights of the deceased by stopping the family from accessing the account?"
By ensuring the contents of said account are dealt with in accordance with whatever instructions the deceased left in their will?
FWIW, a family member can act as executor of the will, in which case they'd have access to the account, so it's not strictly true to say that family members can't access the account once their relative has passed, merely that a different set of rules over who can and should have access to it comes into play. It's not the law/organisations being asses, there are some good reasons why things have to work the way they work when the person whos property you're talking about is no longer in a position to control said property.
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