1. IF Brother's Wife was divorced by Brother and IF she is remarried, THEN she or her daughter is legally NOT entitled to any movable or immovable properties of your deceased brother and neither your personal property can be attached or put into legal litigation.

2. You are as legal heir are entitled to claim 100% property of deceased brother and there is no criminal or civil prosecution that is possible on you for such things.

3. Apprehensively the divorced woman is trying to intimidate and extort her divorced husband's property by threatening & intimidating you.

1. Nominee is just a trustee of legal heirs.

2. The nominee is entitled to realise the liquid assets, but is under a duty to divide them between the heirs of deceased.

3. Your property cannot be attached unless there is a money decree passed against you and it is not executed.

Nominee is only trustee for legal heirs 

2) on her father demise she would be his only legal heir 

3) you have no share in money lying in bank 

It is civil dispute 

she can file suit to claim money lying in her deceased father bank account 

You are mere trustee of the money whereas his daughter is its actual owner by law of inheritance. 

So on proof of her legal heirship you can certainly get the money with or without court order. 

Till then the money will remain with the Bank. 

You cannot hold his property without any will. Mere nomination don't make you entitled to enjoy his money.

Yes,Definitely you have every right to get legal advice for the compliance of legal formalities. 

You are nominee of your younger brother who is deceased father has one daughter demanding money which is lying in the Bank.

You are advised to file partition suit before civil court for the Division of moveable and immovable properties as per Indian Succession Act 1926.

Your actions are noble and you have to take steps carefully for the distribution of your Brother's property amicably with legitimacy amongst the legal heirs of your deceased brother. 

The money belongs to the person who is tge nominee. She doesn't have any rights. Let her lawyer say anything.

The money belongs to you. You should keep it.

File a succession Certificate case.

You will be a trusty but the share of his property band bank account will depend on his will if executed or as per succession laws

Dear Sir,

You are suggested to serve back a legal notice to the lawyer and the daughter as she has no right on that and also file the police complaint against both of them. Also file the case of injunction for direction to them for no harassment. 

As the nominee, you hold your deceased brother's bank deposits as a trustee for his legal heirs, and you are not the beneficiary. As such, you cannot legally withhold the bank deposits indefinitely. Your brother's daughter, as his sole legal heir in this case, is legally entitled to claim the monies from you.

- As per rule , after the death of account holder , the amount can be released to the nominee. 

- However, as per law, a nominee is a trustee, not the owner of the assets i.e. a nominee is only a caretaker of the assets.

- Further, the nominee can only hold money/asset as a trustee and will be legally bound to transfer it to the legal heirs.

- Hence, legally a wife being the legal heir can claim the fund from the nominee. 

- As she is a divorcee , and then she cannot be termed as widow of your brother , hence legally she cannot claim any right over the fund received by you from the bank as a nominee . 

- No lawyer is having right to threaten others without any sufficient reasons , you can lodge a complaint against that lady to incite the lawyer. 

- As per Bombay High court , A man is husband of a woman only as long as there is no snapping of matrimonial relations by a divorce or dissolution of marriage , and she cannot claim compensation of her ex-husbands accidental amount. 

- Finally. she cannot claim the amount from you. 

Good luck and dont forget to rating Positively. 

as a nominee you can only holds a property in trust for the entire legal heir. Nominee doesn’t become the owner. 

your brother's daughter can file civil case to claim money. she cannot file criminal case against you. 

You are only a nominee to bank account of the deceased brother. 

Since his wife has been divorced,  his daughter as a legal heir to your father shall be entitled to her father's monies. 

You cannot deny that 

So don't take any any risk. 

It would be criminal offence to deny giving her money.

You cannot hold the money because it belongs to daughter of your brother as she is legal heir of him. 

You are under obligation to give money to legal heirs after claiming it from bank.

It will be a criminal offence if you refuse to give money but you can defend yourself by saying that she need to prove her rights after which you are ready to give her money so she should file Case for claiming the money. 

Her lawyer is boasting. He cannot do anything. And if you were appointed as beneficiary nominee than you only will receive full amount.

NO criminal act committed by you. If oy mother alive than she will inherit his half property/money.