What does an executor actually have to do?
Every duty in order, from registering the death to the final estate accounts, with the ones that carry personal liability marked.
An executor is personally liable for the estate, and most people accept the role without ever seeing the list of what it involves. This is that list, in the order the work happens.
The steps that protect the executor personally, such as statutory advertisements and bankruptcy searches, are marked as such, because they are the ones most often skipped by someone doing it alone.
What the answer is based on
The duties of a personal representative in England and Wales.
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