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[quote=Anonymous]It is far better for them to be co-executors. They can share the work involved and they can both have full access to all financial and legal documents. It’s also good to have checks and balances, with two sets of eyes on everything.

Don’t do what one of my relatives did. She took her parents to have a low cost will made and emerged from the office as sole executor. When her parents died, she hoarded information and refused to answer any of her siblings’ questions about the estate.

Eventually they had to take her to court. It turned out she was selling personal property and pocketing the profits, keeping no records or receipts. She also stole thousands of dollars of cash that her elderly parents had kept around the house. She was heavily fined by the court and had to repay her siblings for all she had stolen. She also could have been criminally charged, but her siblings were too nice (in my opinion) and decided not to press charges.

So, definitely, better to have co-executors from the beginning to keep everyone on the same page. 
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