Word: executor
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Since the publication of Vladmir’s famed “Lolita” in 1955, Nabokov has served as executor of his father’s literary estate and as unofficial spokesman for the late author, who also wrote “Pale Fire” and the autobiographical “Speak, Memory...
...books? If she balks, consider taking one of the legal options above, depending on the size of your mother's estate and whether you hope ever to improve relations with your sister. Her POA ends with your mother's death. If she's also your mother's executor, however, then you would have to go to probate court for relief. But if you don't act before then, you may be left with nothing but an expensive lawsuit and a hollow feeling in your...
...impose order on prewar planning, Rumsfeld ignored her. Vice President Cheney established a broad and powerful shadow National Security Council early in the Administration and used his close relationship with Bush to drive White House decision making. Yet some foreign diplomats praise her all-business style as the executor of Bush's will, compared with the image-heavy operation of Powell. "When Powell comes, he's got hordes of reporters," says a diplomat. "When Condi comes, she's got no reporters; there are no photo ops. She's there for the kill...
...Bank of America and auditing houses Grant Thornton and Deloitte & Touche also face indictment (they deny wrongdoing). Prosecutors hope to skip the preliminary hearing and obtain rapid convictions in a case that has eroded confidence in Italian industry and finance. Another important delivery arrived last week, as state-appointed executor Enrico Bondi presented his bailout plan. He hopes to sell all noncore businesses and reduce Parmalat's brands from 120 to 30 (concentrating on fruit juices and, of course, milk). Prosecutors in Milan are expected to seek more trials, under normal timetables, against other suspects. T-Mobile's Berry...
...Hagerty brothers used an informal bid system to divide their mother's possessions. Roy Hagerty, who was executor of the estate, assigned different colored stickers to each brother. "First we went through the house, putting stickers on what we wanted. Anything with two or more stickers on it was bid on, with the winner's price deducted from his portion of the small amount of money we each got from the estate," he says. Although brother Harry didn't score the fringed footstool for his wife and kids, he did go home with his father's old leather chair, some...