What are the responsibilities of an Executor/Personal Representative?

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Main duties of the personal representative involve identifying estate assets, collecting those assets, securing those assets. The personal representative is also responsible for notifying any beneficiaries under the will, notifying any errors at law if there is not a will. They’re also responsible for notifying all known or reasonably ascertainable creditors and calls to issue notice to creditors in two newspapers of general circulation in the county where the deedent resided at the time of their death. In Tennessee,

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additionally, the personal representative is responsible for requesting a release from Tinare and notifying Tinare of the estate administration and that release is also um supposed to be filed with the court. And then finally um once the applicable creditor period has expired the personal representative will pay any outstanding debts um any valid claims make distributions to the beneficiaries or the heirs at law request receipts and waiverss from those beneficiaries or alternatively file a final accounting

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and close the estate with the.

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