When can an executor be removed from the will?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Thiel v Friestadt, 2012 SKCA 22 (CanLII):
Further, the action to remove an executor is one which should not be exercised lightly. In Ulmer Estate v. Ulmer Estate, 2000 SKQB 209, Wimmer J. said at para. 2: 2 To override a testator's choice of an executor is a sensitive exercise not to be lightly undertaken. Presumably, the testator has appointed those in whom he has confidence to give effect to his wishes and a court should interfere only where it is clear that the confidence was misplaced. …
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