How Executors Avoid Personal Liability: A handbook for executors and beneficiaries

by Lynne Butler

Popular author and Senior Wills and Estate Planner Lynne Butler offers her latest in an ongoing series of estate planning advice. In this title, Ms. Butler tackles the rarely discussed personal liability of appointed executors. Personal liability is the biggest risk that estate executors and administrators can face, sometimes resulting in long drawn out dissolution of estates that can even trump the value of the initial estate. Understanding how to avoid the pitfalls through this process means that you can enjoy the benefits of being a benefactor exactly as intended in the will. Beneficiaries will also find this book useful, when they want to understand better what an executor can and cannot do.

148 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 15, 2015

About the author

I'm a lawyer with more than 30 years of experience in estate planning and probate. I write about the law in a down-to-earth way that individuals, families, and businesses can really understand and use to plan their financial and personal futures, or to deal with estate administration.

I'm a frequent public speaker for businesses, non-profit groups, conventions, and the public. I've been interviewed on BNN, Global TV, CityTV, CPAC, CBC Radio, Maclean's Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Vancouver Province, and the Edmonton Journal.

I'm the former host of The Law Show on VOCM Radio.

I'm the chair of the Wills and Estates Section of the Newfoundland and Labrador Bar Admission Course.

I'm also the editor of Mensa Canada's national magazine.