executor

It’s easy to put off forming an estate plan, and choosing an executor is another important step.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

The battles fought between surviving friends—in this case Wilde’s literary executor, Robert Ross, and Wilde’s onetime boyfriend, Alfred “Bosie” Douglas—are more partisan, the enmities more acrimonious.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Choose an executor: This is the person who will make sure your wishes are carried out.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

A trustee and executor are two different roles.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

And then, to the surprise of a lot of people, he became Poe’s literary executor, which meant he had access to all of Poe’s papers.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

Given the complexity and time involved, executors can bill the estate for their time and effort, as long as they follow the state laws, court rules and instructions in the will.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

Along with Al Fayed’s widow, Heini Wathén-Fayed, the executors are two of the couple’s children, Camilla Fayed and Jasmine Fayed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

You have no legal duty to step forward, although you should notify the beneficiaries and any alternate executors named in the will as soon as possible.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026

“AI factories are relatively new and evolving and require significant learning along the way. The beneficiaries will be the top executors, from infrastructure players to bare metal powered shell and neo-cloud operators,” he writes.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

Because relatives were sometimes impossible to locate, the committee began to administer the estates of the deceased who had no legal heirs or executors available.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy