At Heritage Trust we help clients in all stages of estate planning and incapacity planning, so that their wishes are clear. We customize wills for our client’s individual needs, and we formalize plans for health and financial decision-making to ease our client’s minds.
We also guide executors in handling estates after a loved one has passed.
We offer this wikibook to help our clients and our community with these challenges, and we are proud to help on this journey of a lifetime.
This wikibook will help you if you are, or are going to be, the executor of a will. It describes the steps in the probate process, as well as problems that may emerge. It is not intended to be a substitute for legal advice.
As an executor you will have duties to perform, and some of those duties must be performed in specific ways or within time limits. You may be paid for your time, and you will be reimbursed for ordinary expenses from the estate. This wikibook answers your questions about all of those things, and more.
This wikibook refers to many laws, forms, websites, and phone numbers. Sometimes those things change. References in this text were current at September 1, 2017.