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The Executor’s Step-by-Step Checklist
Read guide: The Executor’s Step-by-Step ChecklistBeing named as an executor can feel like a final expression of trust. Then the person dies, and the title becomes a job. There may…
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Executor Duties in NZ: The Work Behind the Will
Read guide: Executor Duties in NZ: The Work Behind the WillBeing named as an executor can feel like an honour. Someone trusted you enough to place their final affairs in your hands. They believed you…
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Stopping the Estate’s Digital Money Leaks
Read guide: Stopping the Estate’s Digital Money LeaksThe first subscription charge looked harmless. It was less than twenty dollars and appeared on the deceased’s credit-card statement a few days after death. Then…
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Moving the Estate’s Wheels and Watercraft
Read guide: Moving the Estate’s Wheels and WatercraftThe executor found the keys long before finding the paperwork. A car was parked in the garage. A utility vehicle sat beside the shed, attached…
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Keeping Rental Properties Running After Death
Read guide: Keeping Rental Properties Running After DeathThe tenant’s first rent payment arrived three days after the landlord died. It went into the same account it had always gone into, but nobody…
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When an Executor Must Be Removed
Read guide: When an Executor Must Be RemovedThe beneficiaries had stopped asking when the estate would be finished. They were now asking whether it was safe. The executor had held probate for…
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Paying Estate Expenses While Probate Is Pending
Read guide: Paying Estate Expenses While Probate Is PendingThe funeral invoice was due on Friday. The deceased had enough money in a bank account to cover it several times over, but the account…
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Affidavit Mistakes That Can Stall Probate
Read guide: Affidavit Mistakes That Can Stall ProbateThe executor believed the probate application was finished. The deceased’s original will had been located, the death certificate was available, and the affidavit had been…
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Where Your NZ Probate Application Really Goes
Read guide: Where Your NZ Probate Application Really GoesThe executor lived in Dunedin. The deceased had lived in Christchurch. Most of the estate’s property was in Auckland, and the executor’s co-applicant had recently…
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