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Why use a professional fiduciary to settle my estate?
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Potential challenges can arise when naming family members or other individuals to handle your estate
Washington Trust VP Jessica Allen explains that appointing a professional fiduciary—or multiple professionals with complementary expertise—can provide experience, objectivity, and continuity and avoid family conflict.
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Why use a professional fiduciary to settle my estate?
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Washington Trust VP Jessica Allen explains that appointing a professional fiduciary—or multiple professionals with complementary expertise—can provide experience, objectivity, and continuity and avoid family conflict.
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Why should I use professional fiduciaries to settle my estate when I die?
Settling in a state can be a big job.
No matter who is named, you are giving them a full time chore with responsibilities and risks that can last years and may require multiple professionals.
Naming a family member fiduciary can lead to disharmony or worse, a fiduciary sometimes has to make decisions or take actions that might frustrate or anger a beneficiary.
That can strain even the strongest and most loving of relationships.
Naming multiple people, like all of your children, can make the process unnecessarily complicated, requiring everyone to be in the same place at the same time, or risking deadlock on joint decisions.
Using a professional fiduciary can eliminate these issues and reduce family tension and obligations, at a time when the family is grieving.
For more information visit watrust.com.
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