While you may intend it as a gesture of trust or love, naming a friend or relative as executor of your estate has serious implications. The duties of an executor are formidable — onerous, actually — ...

Finding out that you have been selected to be a family member’s Executor can be both an honor and a huge time commitment. Although each estate administration varies depending on the complexity and ...

If you have never served as an executor of a will, then you probably have no idea what your official duties are in the first moments and days following the person's death. There is a legal answer to ...

The executor of an estate plays a valuable role in not only overseeing a financial plan but also keeping peace in the family.

Executors across the United States regularly discover that managing a parent’s estate creates emotional crosscurrents that have little to do with legal paperwork. Even in families without ...

Far too many of us put off finalizing estate documents because we get hung-up on one or more decisions where we believe we have less than optimal choices. Over my next few posts, I will provide my ...