Travellers cheques - do you know how they work?

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My Dad recently died, leaving $200 in travellers cheques. But they are completely unsigned. I am the executor of his estate - can I just cash them in by signing them twice or is there another proceedure?

you need to take them to the solicitor dealing with the will and include them as part of his estate.

have jsut reread this. Do hte cheques have no signature at all on them.

no - no signature at all - and we are dealing with the estate ourselves - no solicitor.

wonder how he got them without signing them at all. I say this because I work in bank and when we issue cheques they have to be signed in front of cashier selling them then countersigned when encashing them.

no idea - they came from Amex, I think!

Eldorado, not all banks have the customer sign the cheques when they receive them. I have some that i got the other day and I didn't have to sign them at the bank, they just said I could sign them when I got home.

different practice I expect.