On 2014-08-11 7:49 AM, jmcquown wrote:

> There's a heck of a lot involved, that's for sure. I can't think of one
> good reason anyone would *want* to be the executor of an estate.
>
>

My brother has a friend who is a lawyer who ha a lot of elderly clients.
He has written up wills for them and written himself in as executor. He
starts off every morning checking out the obituaries. When he sees a
client's name he locks up the house and sends in an assessor to
calculate the value..... so he can claim his fee, which will be a
percentage of the value of the estate.

For some reason, I agreed to be executor for my sister in law and her
husband. He has said that if she goes first he won't allow the estate to
be dealt with for at least a year. His family is totally dysfunctional.
I will be charging a fee on that one and then pass it back to SiL.

My brother was executor of my aunt's will. I had been her power of
attorney. He was not going to collect a executor's fee on that but our
cousin was such a pain in the ass that he ended passing the job off to
his lawyer friend, and they both collected a fee. I don't blame him.
She had annoyed me enough when I was PoA. No need to go into details
about her problem, but nephews were entrusted with positions of PoA and
executor over the only daughter.