Pa Executors and Duties
1 min readAug 22, 2017
A Pa Executor has many responsibilities.
- Probating the Pa Will
- Providing various mandated court filings
- Obtaining an Estate E.I.N. number
- Preserving the Estate’s assets
- Satisfying the Estate’s creditors
- Notifying Beneficiaries and Heirs
- Filing the Decedent’s final Income Tax returns
- Filing the Estate’s Inheritance and/or Estate Tax Returns
- Filing the Estate’s Fiduciary Income Tax returns
- Providing an accounting of all of the estate items
- Distributing the assets to the beneficiaries (Will) or heirs (no Will)
Choose your Executor with extreme care
- Be aware of your Executor’s traits
- Be aware of the Estate’s Fiduciary Income Tax returns
- Be aware of the Decedent’s final Income Tax returns
As an Executor, please be aware that
- You can be held personally liable for unpaid taxes
- You should be careful of the advice you receive and what you hear
- You should ensure that the Income Tax returns were filed in your Estate
- With all of the recent talk of the Estate Tax, the Income Tax side is as vital
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Originally published at • John B Whalen Jr Esq •.