<prompt> Human: My apologies if this isnt the best place for this question. My partner was hit by a car on June 26th. She worked at Taco Bell. There is one paycheck waiting at the store to be picked up, and there will be one final check on Tuesday. Since she died on the day SCOTUS told us we could get married well, documented date of death was the next day, but it was realistically instant, we werent legally married but her family is wonderful and having mom, who is next of kin, do anything, is perfectly fine. She has wanted me to handle anything I legally can less for her to worry about after losing her only child but shes wiling to do anything she needs to do. Heres the problem. Taco Bell tells us that they dont know anything about reissuing the checks with the next if kins name, and that it will be simple for mom to take the check in my partners name along with the death certificate and deposit the check into her own account. Then the bank quite literally shrugs and says that while they have no idea what to actually do, we need to just have Taco Bell reissue the checks with the next of kins name and its as simple as that. Its Taco Bell, these arent 5000 pay checks, but my partner had been working night and day to help accumulate money for the home I was buying and still am and I cannot even imagine living with the guilt of letting this money disappear because everyones scratching their heads. I also cant imagine getting a lawyer over what will probably amount to maybe 400 reminder, her mom and I arent fighting over it, we just want the money to be utilized because she earned it; she was killed on her way to the bus after work, even.What on earth can we do? This is making me physically nauseous with guilt already. I hopethink we will get her bag and wallet from the police when the investigation is complete, assuming they have her things; how illegal is it for me to just deposit the check at the ATM and withdraw the money with her bank card? I know her PIN, we were open with that stuff. Serious question there, too, so please be gentle even if it is something horrible like a felony or whatever. I just need to know. Her actual bank account has about seven dollars in it she was a student, I have the career so Im not worried about a 10k balance or anything. Just these two final pay checks that were the reason why we didnt spend a ton of time together in her last days, because she practically lived at Taco Bell. Oh, and Im in Ohio.  <response>: I have nothing to add but I just want to say how sorry I am to hear that. All the best 