If you follow our blog you know the importance of the personal representative. Do you know the duties of a personal representative in a West Palm Beach will administration? Also do you know how the judge and court will decide who the personal representative is? What happens if the person you appointed is not fit to serve? Do you know the requirements before you appoint a non-relative from out of State? Learn more about how to select your West Palm Beachpersonal representative.
What will my West Palm Beach Personal Representative Have to do?
- This is a very common question.
- In short the personal representative will be responsible for guiding your estate through the probate process.
- This includes over seeing distributions after collecting assets, and answering questions from friends and relatives.
- So who is going to be your West Palm Beach personal representative?
- It depends first of all if you die testate (with a will) or intestate (without a will).
- Given that you are reading this blog, lets assume you died with a properly executed West Palm Beach will.
Dying Testate: Who is going to be my Personal Representative?
- The answer is pretty simple in this case.
- Assuming you have a will that was written well your going to name a personal representative right there.
- But what happens if they cannot serve?
- They may be unfit to serve for legal reasons.
- They may be dead!
- Both can make it quite hard to serve as a personal representative.
- Assuming the person you appoint cannot serve, the personal representative will beselected by a majority of the people in interest to the will.
- Finally if that wont work any devisee will do.
- Want a simple way to remember it?
- Just remember the acronym NSA- Named, Selected by Majority and then Any devisee!
- So what happens if you do not have a will?
Dying Intestate in West Palm Beach
- If you die without a will you have a different acronym, ironically also a government related one like NSA, this one is SSN.
- Surviving spouses will get first preference.
- Then Selected persons by a majority in interest.
- Finally the nearest heir will be chosen.
- Simple enough right?
Just remember NSA and that you never want to have SSN because you want a valid West Palm Beach will.