Anyone Have Experience With Pershing?

Not positive but think it might be the law that they have to get the death certificate.

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Think about it from their perspective.

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I have, but I would think a notarized court order from a judge naming the new executor because the old one died (name and date in the doc) along with the obit from the local paper (also available online) would suffice to prove he died.

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Btw are you sure it's the executor and not the trustee that is become the successor?

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Strangely enough, yes.

The Trust was set up with my sister and I getting property but our mother had usufruct until she passed or remarried. She remarried but neither my sister nor I were in a position to deal with creating the LLC then moving everything to it (let this be a lesson, get shite done the soonest you can!) so we just left it in the Trust.

At the point my mother re-married the guy technically became the executor. He was fine with keeping things as-is just as we were so there was no rush.

Then he got testicular cancer and getting anything from him was next to impossible. Then he died and we had a new executor named and we moved everything to the LLC except for this investment account (since we have zero access to it).

Any B/D is going to require a death certificate for this.

Pershing may be your broker/dealer, but is the account "managed" (active or passively) by an investment advisor? I've never seen an account directly with Pershing, they are usually just the back office holder and you have an investment advisor you work with who is independent (a lot of small shops use Pershing to custody assets). If this is the case, your advisor should be working with you on this issue.

The broker/dealers are HEAVILY regulated these days and there may well be a regulation that says a birth certificate is needed. You would think a judicial document would be sufficient, but that might not be what the regulation says.

Also, I want to make sure you are using the right terms when you are speaking with these people. The executor is the person managing the grandfather's estate until it is fully distributed. The trustee is the person who manages the trust that was set up for you with usufruct to your mother. It may well be that the executor and the trustee were the same person.

Once the death cert is provided, with the new trustee having been named, it should be easy to move the assets from the trust to an LLC. It would be considered a distribution from the trust. Who is going to manage the LLC?