What is the test for passing over one or more co-executors?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Weisstock v Weisstock, 2019 BCSC 517 (CanLII):
In addition, it has been held that an impasse between co-executors that interferes with the proper administration of the estate may suffice to justify passing over one or more of them, even without a showing of wrongdoing: Dunsdon v. Dunsdon, 2012 BCSC 1274. In that case, Ballance J. explained her conclusions in that regard as follows, at paras. 202-203:
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