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A petition to remove an executor, or an application to remove an executor, is a legal motion filed with a probate court on behalf of an interested party to a will or estate. A petition for removal alleges that the current executor is unfit for their position due to negligence, misconduct, or incapacity.
In an unsupervised probate, the appointed estate administrator manages assets, pays any debts, files required tax returns and various court documents, and distributes the estate assets.
A deceased person's property is known as their estate. Probate administration generally refers to distributing a deceased person's estate. Probate also more narrowly refers to the process of validating a will. It's the legal process of determining whether the last will and testament is valid.
In California, executors can make a move on estate property for themselves, but only in some instances and only with all the legal boxes ticked. This type of decision gets a very close look by the court because, let's face it, it's easy for conflicts of interest to pop up.
A Section 13650 set-aside leaves the surviving spouse open to a significant financial risk of exposure to decedent's creditors because to the extent the decedent's and surviving spouse's interests in community and/or quasi-community property, and decedent's separate property interests that pass to the surviving spouse ...
In an unsupervised estate, they are only in court once to open and once to close. Everything else is handled outside of court. The beneficiaries still need to approve everything.
Unsupervised probate, also known as independent administration, is a type of probate that does not require court supervision or approval for every action of the executor or administrator.
The good news is that Probate Code 850 offers litigants the ability to resolve property disputes related to a decedent's estate or trust, or a guardianship or conservatorship estate in the probate court. One of the most frequently used 850 petitions is a Heggstad petition.
Submit your claim directly to the probate court and serve a copy on the personal representative. If you file a formal claim and the personal representative rejects it, you can file suit against the estate within three months of the rejection.
Unlike executors, beneficiaries can petition the court to have the executor removed if they are acting improperly or breaching their fiduciary duties. Beneficiaries can also petition the court to surcharge the executor if any of their actions financially harmed the estate.