When I made my first will about 20 years ago, I nominated two relations as executors and they were happy to be asked. They are still my executors but they are not as active as they used be and I’m not ...

Query: Dear Mary Frances, I wonder if you could clarify for me the legal responsibility of an executor of a will. My friend had a strained relationship with her one sibling for much of their life but ...

A man appointed by his late mother as executor of her €5.1m estate should be replaced in that role by a “neutral” person, a High Court judge has ruled. Mr Justice Denis McDonald said Dermot Horan’s ...