<prompt> Human: My mother recently passed away, I am the sole heir to her estate and have invested most of it already 300K RetirementAnnuity, 10K Emergency Fund, 75K childs education529, etc. and settled all bills since her death. Our family debt consists of a small college loan, which will be payed off this year, and our 115K mortgage.I have now found out about 500 or so shares of Allstate Insurance that she owned as well. I am in the process of having the shares transferred to me. My question is what to do with them?I have covered all the major bases as far as investments retirement, child education, etc. already. Should I keep the stock or liquidate it to re-invest? Was thinking of topping off my sons 529 to 100K total investment and letting that grow, and then split the rest between current investments to beef them up. Thoughts?  <response>: Sell the shares. Make sure the cost basis was properly stepped up as of your mothers date of death. 