The importance of communicating with estate beneficiaries

By Susannah Roth ( May 2, 2022, 1:57 PM EDT) -- One of my late husband’s favourite sayings, along with putting “a rod in pickle for your own back” (the relevance of this one will become clear later in this article, but for a history of this saying, see The Phrase Finder and the Merriam-Webster Dictionary), was “start out how you mean to go on.” Good advice in a variety of situations, including for estate trustees (also referred to as executors) who are beginning to administer an estate....