Where there’s a will, there’s an executor – the person who manages your estate when you’ve died. Who do you choose for this ...

When you die, all your debts must be settled, your final taxes paid and your assets distributed according to your wishes or, if you haven't written a will, in terms of the law of intestate succession.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. My widowed and childless cousin, in her nineties, has made me the sole executor of her will. If she does not ...