It’s hard to find good help, especially when you’re dead. Choosing an estate’s executor, the person who carries out the terms of a will, is a fraught decision, and whether you tap a friend, family ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s hard to find good help, especially when you’re dead. Choosing an estate’s executor, the person who carries out the terms of a ...

Q. My parents died five months apart. I am the executor. How is the executor fee calculated fairly? A double fee sounds too much even though it’s so much work. A ...

A. It seems you’re trying to determine how the executor fee, also called the corpus commission, is set. In New Jersey, the fee is 5% of the first $200,000 of assets taken in by the executor, 3.5% of ...

The executors of Jack Kent Cooke's estate deserve about $37 million in fees because managing the estate has been complicated and because they worked hard to get the best prices for his assets, an ...

In a recent New York surrogate court decision, according to documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal, the court awarded the executors of Leona Helmsley’s estate $100 million in fees, to be split ...

Question: “What is the penalty for a highly sophisticated financial adviser getting his elderly client to name him as co-executor in his will where he will be entitled to a fee of $23,000? Is this a ...