<prompt> Human: I am not sure what flair to tag this with. Hopefully some redditers can help me out.A bit of background, in January my wife finds out her Dad died. Her dad divorced her mother when she was a child and my wife remained very distant from him for a long time. Since weve been married she made effort to see him occasionally, but the relationship was nothing more than that. So when he died, she was clueless what to do as he never discussed such matters with her. Thankfully some of his family close by took care of some matters, but essentially they dropped everything off to us.Heres what we do know. He has absolutely no assests other than a Chase account with 200 in it. Id imagine nothing now that fees have eaten at it. He lived in sec. 8, no life insurance, car, retirement. Literally nothing but Social Security we which were told was cancelled. I have no clue about his debt level probably a good chance he had no outstanding debts from what we know, no credit cards. We were also told we have to do taxes for him.I have a high workload job and my wife is busy with an infant so its kind of a pain to have to take care of this, especially since we just never really knew him. So my questions are:1 Do I have to do anything with his Chase account? To start our nearest branch is an hour away. I tried calling and they didnt seem to care and said that wed need a probate. I cant afford to fly across the country to get a piece of paper to close a bank account. We have no desire to empty out the account and frankly I spent a ton of time trying to close an account at Chase for me horrible bank btw and the last thing I want is to deal with someone elses.2 Do I have to file taxes? What happens if we dont? We have no interest in inheritance or anything.Even my wife only saw her dad a handful of times between the divorce. Neither of us really want this burden and would be happy to deny his estate. My wife is an only child, so there isnt that option. I am just curious as what we are supposed to do. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!  <response>: WRONG!! You are not responsible for anything and do NOT have to do his taxes!! His ESTATE must take care of the estate. Now since she is the next of kin that might be why she was asked but since no benefit for being a trustee of the estate sounds like no assets or value then whoever notified her of his death simply say that is such a shame and that she is not in a position to take care of the custodial issues of the estate. At this point if nobody else steps up and sounds like they wont then there IS no estate!! Everything will go to the state which sounds like just heartache.There is no such thing as dropping things off and expecting your wife to take care of it. Just put it in a drawer and leave it there. If Chase contacts you simply say I am not the account holder. If the IRS contacts you simply say I am not the trustee of the estate.You have absolutely NO obligation. I would get a copy of the death certificate if you can so if Chase or the IRS contacts you the answer is simply the person in question is deceased and offer to send them a copy of the death certificate if they are persistent simply as a courtesy. But let me stress this CANNOT be connected in anyway back to you. Put whatever was given to you in a drawer and if a family member calls saying the IRS is calling or Chase is calling the answer is I am so sorry to hear that and if they want the stuff back that was given to your wife they are welcome to it. 