Here’s a tale of caution about being an executor, the person you appoint in a will to oversee your estate after your death. The cast includes a 73-year-old high-school-educated homemaker named ...

My father passed away in January 2022. In June 2022, my childhood home in New Jersey was sold and I was due to receive 20% of ...

Q. I am one of three executors of an estate that’s approximately $3.24 million. We are trying to determine the commissions to take for 2022. The first commission is the income commission of 6%, to be ...

To continue our discussion of executors from last week, let’s talk about how executors are paid for what they do. The executor continues until the job is done and the estate is officially closed by ...

Most executors perform their duties with integrity and dedication. But when an executor doesn’t uphold his duties, a beneficiary may want to remove him. We detail the criteria to do so, and the ...

New Jersey is considered a "probate friendly" state since the executors are not required to obtain court approvals for most actions. However, if the executor is not complying with state law, in N.J.

NEW YORK — A judge yesterday ordered the immediate removal of former butler Bernard Lafferty as executor of the $1.2 billion estate of tobacco heiress Doris Duke. In replacing Mr. Lafferty with a ...

Rhonda Griswold, a Cades Schutte law firm partner, joins producer/host Coralie Chun Matayoshi to discuss your fiduciary duties as an Executor or Trustee, things you need to do, notice and accounting ...

In July 2025, Paris Jackson raised concerns over “premium payouts” made by Michael Jackson’s estate for unrecorded attorney ...