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Executors Of A Will
Can the executors of a Will then refuse to be so if the beneficiaries are changed?
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Lew, in case you don't read all the link, the only thing that can cause a problem is if you have begun to act as executor and then change your mind. Its still not impossible to remove yourself but much harder, even if there is another executor(s) who is/are agreeable for you to remove yourself. There may also be legal costs involved in doing this which cannot be taken directly out of the estate (personal knowledge)
As a matter of interest, are you saying the beneficiaries are being changed before, or after, the death of the testator, and who is changing them?
25 odd years ago when my father died a cousin was one nominated executor and the solicitor who wrote the will another. Neither wanted to do it, the solicitor presumably because there wasn't enough in it for him to bother and, my cousin knew nothing about it whatsoever until I told him. They both agreed that I could do it and I did. Exactly the same thing happened two years later when my mother died.
25 odd years ago when my father died a cousin was one nominated executor and the solicitor who wrote the will another. Neither wanted to do it, the solicitor presumably because there wasn't enough in it for him to bother and, my cousin knew nothing about it whatsoever until I told him. They both agreed that I could do it and I did. Exactly the same thing happened two years later when my mother died.
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