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When couples serve as co-executors and disagree on estate decisions

My partner and I are the executors of their father's estate and we keep disagreeing about how to handle their siblings' requests for money before everything is settled, and it's putting us against each other when we should be working together.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Two people must navigate the tension between legal obligations and family pressures while maintaining their own relationship.

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