Executor

The Importance of Identifying Estate Assets and Liabilities

In the process of estate administration, it is important to identify estate assets and liabilities. This is so that the executor/administrator and beneficiaries are…

Your burial or cremation and funeral

Julia Tutt

Executor, Funeral Planning

Planning the Inevitable: Who Steps In When You’re Gone? When you die, it is your executor who is responsible for your burial or cremation…

Choosing the Right Executor

Kate Donnan

Executor

The role of an executor is fiduciary in nature with executors owing duties to the Court and the beneficiaries of the estate. The Courts…

The Importance of Instructions

Eliza Walker

Beneficiary, Executor

By Eliza Walker – Associate Whenever you engage a lawyer, the first step is to provide them with instructions about what you would like…

Death, Duty, and Decisions: The Emotional Reality of Estate Administration

Emma Nisbet

Executor

By Emma Nisbet Estate Administration Taking on the role of an executor in the administration of the estate is a great responsibility, one that often…

Discovering and Disputing a Deceased’s Debts

Max Williams

Beneficiary, Executor, NSW, QLD, Wills

Put Up or Shut Up – Discovering and Disputing a Deceased’s Debts. An executor or administrator of a deceased person’s estate (“LPR”) has a…

Know Your Role: Executors and Beneficiaries

de Groots wills and estate lawyers

Heir Tight, Beneficiary, Executor, Trusts, Wills

Two of the most common terms used in Wills and the administration of deceased estates are ‘executor’ and ‘beneficiary’. But what do these terms…

When do I need a will?

de Groots wills and estate lawyers

Heir Tight, Executor, Guardianship, Superannuation, Wills

If you own assets, then you really should have a will because a will is your way of ensuring that your assets go to…

Some Duties and Obligations as an Executor

de Groots wills and estate lawyers

Heir Tight, Beneficiary, Executor, Tax liabilities

Executors have a number of responsibilities as a legal personal representative (“LPR”) when acting in the administration of the estate. They can generally be…

It Doesn’t Always Work Out in the Wash

de Groots wills and estate lawyers

Heir Tight, Beneficiary, Executor, Family Provision, Wills

One of the most important considerations a testator has in preparing their will is appointing a person/s to act in the role of executor.…

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