Your state, like mine, may require an Inventory to be filed with the court as a public document and let beneficiaries demand an accounting after a certain amount of time has passed. However, a life insurance policy pays to the named beneficiary and is not part of the probate estate listed on the Inventory (or the Executor's responsibility). A bank account may be pay-on-death or joint with right of survivorship. If so, it, too, is not listed on the probate estate and is not the Executor's responsibility.
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