When someone dies, others may be called on to manage their estate. An executor is charged with overseeing the distribution of someone's assets according to the will or state inheritance laws if they ...

Not having a will can result in costly and complicated legal processes for your loved ones after your passing.

Dear Savvy Senior: My aunt recently asked me to be the executor of her will when she dies. I’m flattered that she asked, but I’m not sure what exactly the job entails. What can you tell me about this?

Q. My father died first, then my mother. They had identical wills, and my youngest brother was named executor, and I was the alternate. The will states that if the first executor cannot or will not ...

Dear Liz: A lifelong friend has made me executor of his will. He has one brother who is named in the will only to be told that he is not included. My friend’s estate is left to two other lifelong ...

Goldman Sachs’s general counsel, Kathryn Ruemmler, was listed as a backup executor in a January 2019 version of Jeffrey Epstein’s will, a new disclosure from Congress showed Monday. Ruemmler, who at ...

Country singer Naomi Judd left control of an estimated $25 million estate to her husband, not mentioning her daughters by name, several media outlets are reporting. Judd died by suicide on April 30, ...