Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Views on the future of the family business absorb a considerable part of another letter of wishes. The testator wants the ...

A nominated executor is obliged to secure estate assets even before the issuance of letters testamentary, or preliminary letters testamentary (see Matter of Schultz, 104 AD3d 1146 [4th Dept. 2013]).

Malcolm Butler is the president and CEO of the Fiduciary Group in Savannah, Ga. I once had a client who half-jokingly told me he wanted to be buried with his iPhone in his hand so he could call me—the ...

When someone passes away, the last thing their family should have to deal with is a complicated and drawn-out estate settlement. But without the right executor in place, that’s often what happens. An ...