The biggest surprise to me is that Bill Hamilton hasn't always been the executor of their estates and the trustee of their family trusts. Most families select an attorney or an accountant to handle that aspect of their wills, especially if the attorney or accountant is the father of their grandchildren. In my opinion, Bill and Ted Richardson should be co-executors of everything that's set aside for Martin, Kat, Naomi, and Chelsea.

1 hour ago, Broderick said:

The biggest surprise to me is that Bill Hamilton hasn't always been the executor of their estates and the trustee of their family trusts. Most families select an attorney or an accountant to handle that aspect of their wills, especially if the attorney or accountant is the father of their grandchildren. In my opinion, Bill and Ted Richardson should be co-executors of everything that's set aside for Martin, Kat, Naomi, and Chelsea.

So Bill and Ted are the only logical choices to be executors or trustees? Is that because they've been so responsible through the years? Or because no women in the family are qualified?

I don't think Anita has to be angry with Bill, but I do think there should be some hesitation to put the man in charge when he is responsible for so much family destruction and pain.

I don't think this is realistic at all.

51 minutes ago, ranger1rg said:

So Bill and Ted are the only logical choices to be executors or trustees? Is that because they've been so responsible through the years? Or because no women in the family are qualified?

I don't think Anita has to be angry with Bill, but I do think there should be some hesitation to put the man in charge when he is responsible for so much family destruction and pain.

I don't think this is realistic at all.

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.

And just to add --- Michael Jackson certainly wasn't an EGOT on the Grand Scale of Anita Williams Dupree (lol), but he was considered a fairly successful entertainer back in his day. We learned a few years ago that the executors of Michael Jackson's estate had awarded the attorneys $625,000 in "bonuses", in addition to the legal fees they'd already been paid. We know the job of the executor is to preserve the assets of the estate to the best of his/her ability in order to benefit the heirs of the decedent. That's obviously not being done in the case of the Jackson estate, where the executors have no personal relationship with Paris, Prince, and Blanket. If Jermaine or Rebbie or Marlon had a spouse who was a high-powered attorney and who'd closed the Jackson estate for free, think of all the extra money Blanket could've had.