Q: Does a co-executor to an estate have the legal right to have a key to the house? Even if they don’t live in it.
My half-sister and my brother are co-executors to my fathers estate. He passed away with no will and my brother and I live in the house and she doesn’t. Does she have a right to have a key to the house.
A:
How can there be executors if there was no Will? Were they appointed by the Probate Court?
If she is executor of the estate then she needs to have access to the house to inventory the goods and to dispose of the assets. So ... yes.
I hope that answers your question.
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