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Certified Death Certificate, decedent, EIN number, estate account, Executor, Formal Probate Process, Letter of Authority, personal representative
In November 2012, my attorney informed me that the probate court approved me as executor of my Uncle’s estate. However, the attorney didn’t have the Letters of Authority for Personal Representative at the moment. So, the attorney told me that the letter will arrive in a couple of days. I couldn’t wait to get going on closing the estate. As noted in the article In the Interim, I had the estate organized and ready to administer. Consequently, the approval process took two months and time was ticking away. In Massachusetts, the formal probate process takes a year, and now I was down to ten months.
