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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">Esteemed Colleagues,</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">Client’s dad died one week after mom.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>I am hoping to open a Joint Probate (two kids, equal heirs under each Will).<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>But mom’s will names sister as executor, and dad’s will names brother as executor, with no alternate.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Only sister wants to be the executor, and brother will gladly sign a Declination to Serve.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>In doing so, I think I would have an Executor and Administrator with Will Annexed.<span style="margin: 0px;">
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">Can I open a Joint Probate?<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Will I need to ask for Letters Testamentary for mom’s estate and Letters of Administration with Will annexed for dad’s estate, and can they be issued under the same cause number?<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>This doesn’t sound correct, but I’d hate to have to open two separate probates just because of the title of the estate representative.<span style="margin: 0px;">
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">Has anyone run across this before, and is there a simple solution that I’m not seeing?
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<p>Jerry Sprute<br>
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