Who Becomes Administrator When There’s No Will in BC?
Onyx Law Group · Vancouver, British Columbia
The family usually picks a trusted person who is organised and good with paperwork and money to apply for a grant of administration. If no family member can or should act, a friend can step in, or the family can hire a trust company to act as administrator.
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So who becomes the administrator when there’s no will and one of no one in the family can or should act? So if there are assets that should be dealt with and nobody who is a family member wants to administer the estate, the family can also go to friends at the individual, and if that doesn’t work, then I recommend researching trust companies and finding a trust company to act as the administrator.
General information, not legal advice.
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