How Executors and Heirs Can Decide Whether Repairs, Renovations, or a Fast As-Is Sale Make the Most Sense When a loved one passes away and leaves behind a home, one of the biggest questions facing the executor and family is simple to ask but difficult to answer: Should we fix the house up before selling
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Should I Take My Executor Fee? YES* * Yes you should take your executor’s fee. You likely had to manage life, grief, and estate administration, face challenge after challenge, be a cleanout expert, organizer, diplomat, and negotiator, and wear countless hats you never saw coming. It likely took hundreds of hours. But this is
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Estate Liquidation | 5-minute read Personal Property | Estate Assets | Estate Distribution Who gets Grandma’s Yellow Pie Plate? Estate property which does not have a title, or ownership specified as the decedent, (such as a car, real estate or some financial assets) are non-titled assets. These non-titled assets may be referred to as Personal
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Executor Road – Out They Say! Dealing with the friends watching you dealing with it… Executor Road: The Pile of Stuff A well-meaning friend said innocuously, “Out!” after I noted I had been busy going through the contents of our family house: the boxes, papers, tchotchkes, etc. The stuff from the drawers, the darkest attic corners,
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The Family Heirlooms That Our Children Don’t Want Source: The Wall Street Journal The link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-family-heirlooms-that-our-children-dont-want-11618068175?mod=e2fb&fbclid=IwAR29oewfKmYbGJdGwpfEXeA72VIKBnpTRQ9RAITDah6hu1Ng-DY-bkpfwoA [Article links have been disabled due to the WSJ landing page settings. Search “The Family Heirlooms That Our Children Don’t Want” should locate this article for you.] Before the dust settles, in the midst of the dust and fog,
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“Grief or Greed? When Families Fight Over Material Possessions” by What’s Your Grief Reading Time: 2 Minutes After a loss – fighting over material possessions. Perhaps it’s the same as when you were fighting over something in the back seat of the car. Mom and dad up front, you and your sibling in the back
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Delay of estate settlement results in extra-legal costs Source: The Monterey Herald The link: https://www.montereyherald.com/2020/12/12/liza-horvath-senior-advocate-delay-of-estate-settlement-results-in-extra-legal-costs/ you left the estate administration “alive” as a way of keeping the memory of your parents alive. While this is not completely uncommon, it can be risky… This article by Monterey Trust Management‘s Liza Horvath makes a prudent and practical
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The things my mother loved The things my mother loved were the hardest to go through. Certainly, they were the hardest to let go. My mother collected things. Nothing categorical, like records or Steiff Teddy Bears, or gold bullion (regrettably) but her own category, undefined. Things that made her happy. Inanimate, material things – things
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