Home Retirement Estate Planning 7 Tips for Choosing the Right Executor What traits make for a good executor, and who by default is unable to serve?

Home Investing Wealth Management What to Do When You’re the Executor You’ll likely need professional help, including an attorney with estate-planning experience, a tax pro and a financial adviser.

Long Island Nassau Court may name executor of Diane Schuler's estate Warren Hance, left, and Jackie Hance leave a funeral Mass for their three girls who died in a crash on the Taconic State Parkway.

If you do not have any responsible friends or family members, you can name an attorney, accountant, bank or trust company as executor.