The Law and Practice of Personal Representatives 2nd Edition

The second edition of The Law and Practice of Personal Representatives provides a definitive version on the law relating to:

• the appointment of executors and administrators,
• the administrative and distributive duties, powers and liabilities of personal representatives, administrative actions
• the issue of costs and time limits for bringing such actionsRecent court decisions have lent a renewed and incisive focus on the role, duties, power and liabilities of personal representatives and practitioners in the field who should be fully conversant with the upshot of such decisions.

• Shaughnessy v Shaughnessy [2016] IEHC 303 (personal liability of nominated executors}
• Dunne v Dunne [2016] IECA 269 and Muckian v Hoey [2016] IEHC 688 (the removal and replacement of administrators)
• In the Estate of White [2015] IESC 84 (the duties of personal representatives)
• In the Estate of O Callaghan [2016] IEHC 668 (the appointment of administrators for limited purposes)

• The important amendments to the Rules of the Superior Courts by Statutory Instruments introduced in 2016 relating to pre-trial procedures and conduct of trials
• A renewed concentration of the roles, duties, powers and liabilities of personal representatives
• Takes account of all recent court decisions relating to the role, duties, powers and liabilities of personal representatives
• References to all recent and pertinent Probate Office updates relating to the proofs required in applications for:
• grants of probate
• letters of administration with will annexed or intestate
• applications for grants by guardians, committees and attorneys
• de bonis non applications
• applications by personal representatives of persons who die domiciled abroad
• applications for grants by administrators appointed by the court pursuant to s.27(4) of the Succession Act 1965
• A total revision of parts and chapters of the book incorporating recent court decisions, Probate Office updates and amendments to the Rules of the Superior Courts