Someone you loved trusted you with one of the most important jobs of their life. Now it's yours to carry out, and most people named executor or estate trustee have never done it before and have no idea where to start.
The Last Executor Guide You'll Ever Need is a comprehensive, plain-language reference for Canadians who are settling an estate. Written by Nancy Boisvert, Certified Executor Advisor, it walks you through every stage of estate administration from the first difficult days after a death to the final distribution and closing of the estate.
Inside you'll find clear guidance on executor duties and responsibilities, understanding your legal role and fiduciary obligations, navigating probate across Canadian provinces, identifying and protecting estate assets, handling estate taxes and CRA requirements, communicating with beneficiaries, managing disagreements, and preparing the final accounting and distribution.
Six practical appendices give you ready-to-use checklists, templates, and reference tools, including a First 7 Days Checklist, a 30-Day Checklist, an Estate Asset Inventory, and a Glossary of Common Estate Terms.
The book also connects you to a suite of interactive, province-specific online tools designed for Canadians who want to approach estate planning and estate settlement intentionally. Whether you're wrapping up someone else's estate or thinking about your own, those tools are built to take you further.
This isn't a legal textbook. It's the executor guide you'll actually reach for, organized the way the work unfolds, written in plain language, and grounded in the real experience of Canadian estate administration.
This book is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute legal, accounting, tax, or financial advice.
