What are the duties of an executor?
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
The following excerpt is from Best v Hendry, 2021 NLCA 43 (CanLII):
In O’Dea Estate (Re), 2019 NLSC 178, Orsborn J., considered the duties of an executor in the context of deciding competing applications for appointment as executor of an estate. He stated “an executor is a trustee upon whom the law imposes serious obligations” (para. 24), and described an executor’s duties and obligations by quoting with approval from Cartwright v. Havens Estate, 2010 ABQB 91:
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