The personal representative is a person that has been nominated in a person’s last will and testament. The personal representative is important because they make distributions to beneficiaries. These beneficiaries can either be specific beneficiaries or residuary beneficiaries.

The personal representative can be a trust company, it can be a corporation, can be your best friend. It can be a group of people as well. The personal representative has a very important because they pay their creditors and they take care of all the assets that are in the decedent’s estate.