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Posts Tagged: removing estate trustee
2 ResultsReplacing an Estate Trustee
by: Jonathan Pellow, March 19, 2024
Overview In some cases, an estate trustee (“ET”) has been appointed, but needs to be replaced before the estate administration is complete. This can occur for a variety of reasons: the ET becomes unable or unwilling to continue acting for the estate, the ET is removed by the Court in the course of litigation, or…read more
Being Removed or Renouncing as Estate Trustee?
by: Justin de Vries and Gillian Fournie, November 4, 2014
Although they sound similar, there are important procedural differences between “removing” an estate trustee and “renouncing” the right to act as an estate trustee. Where the named estate trustee has not yet begun acting in her role as estate trustee (i.e. she has not yet undertaken any work administering the estate), she may “resign” or…read more