
The Importance of Advice and a Professional Executor
I Have Changed My Mind . . . Early in my career as a lawyer, I concluded that it did not make sense for most of the people who asked me to write wills for them to suggest that they consider someone other than their wife or children to serve as executor or trustee of their estate. Although that early advice is still reasonable in many cases, I have in more recent years come to the conclusion that an outsider, often a professional such as a lawyer or accountant, is a more appro