It's VERY realistic to me, because while listening to the show this afternoon, I was working on a large estate in which a former son-in-law is one of the executors. 🤣 The reason he was chosen is because he's a senior partner in a law firm, and he's handling the closing of the estate pro bono publico, which of course saved hundreds of thousands of dollars in administrative fees that will ultimately accrue to the grandchildren instead of to some random law firm.
Bill is the only person in the Dupree circle who has a full staff that can do the estate work free of charge.
The only "danger" of making Bill Hamilton the executor is that in the division of the residuary estate, he's likely to favor Naomi and Chelsea (consciously or subconsciously) over Martin & Kat. That would be negated by having Ted serve as his co-executor. Bill is savvy enough to know that if he asks Caroline Lee to transfer the lucrative Apple stock certificates to the Danielle Dupree Family Trust and the poorly-performing General Electric stocks to the Nicole Dupree Family Trust, Ted would say, "Nope, we're not doing that. We're putting half the Apple stock in Dani's Trust and half in Nicole's Trust, and we're putting the General Electric stock half and half in each, or else we're selling it and splitting the proceeds between them."
Ted would be the logical stop-gap to keep Bill from making a decision that would favor Dani's kids over Nicole's kids. And it avoids placing Dani and Beautiful in a position where they become antagonistic toward each other over some specific asset.
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