If someone finds you responsible and trustworthy enough to handle their affairs after their death, you should be honored; not everyone is capable of fulfilling the duties of a personal representative (or executor). These people, chosen by the living owner of an estate, must be discreet, fair, honest, and organized. The primary tasks of a personal representative consist of seeing the estate through the probate process, administrating the estate during probate, and disbursing the estate to the named beneficiaries after the probate process is complete.
