Q: Let’s say someone — we’ll call him “me” — has been named executor for an elderly friend, even after telling him I don’t want the job. He has no one else to give the position to, no relatives or ...

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Financial advisor Mark Faiz Sakkejha received a painful reminder in 2012 that a financial advisor cannot act as executor of a client’s estate. Faiz Sakkejha was fined $7,500 by the Mutual Fund Dealers ...