Executor: No experience required?

David Wilkie, 1891, The Readiing of the Will, plus public domain image from the Gloucester City News.net

Dear Mary is surprised because at the reading of the will, she learned for the first time that she had been named as executor.  This shouldn't have happened to a lovely person like Mary, but having bought How to Laugh at Death and Taxes: What willwriters, executors, heirs, and beneficiaries need to know, she's now feeling a bit more comfortable.

But what are the requirements to be a good executor? Sandra Arsenault, a Law Clerk at Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, has written a clever tongue-in-cheek summary of executor qualifications in a June 28, 2024 post titled You are hired…wait, did I even apply? Well worth the read!