The Globe and Mail Nancy Woods Published April 19, 2021 Hello, My mother passed in December of 2019. On Jan. 26, 2020 I was the last of the four kids to sign off on the disbursal of funds. In the telephone meeting with the Estates department that day, I was told a period of a few weeks would be all that was required to close out and disburse my mother’s estate. With this global health crisis, I am increasingly concerned that the lifetime of savings by my parents is being severely depleted in the current market, and my questions are: are my fears justified? At what point is the final value of my mother’s LIRA and RRIF accounts determined for disbursement value to the beneficiaries? Is it a set time after her death, and a set time after the disbursement arrangements have all been made? Or is the estate still an active investment and potentially losing its value over all this time while probate is held up in a locked-down justice system, unable to process the final documentation needed to close out the value of the investments?