3.1 Who will carry out my last wishes?
[Student Manual, page 15]

The liquidator is the person responsible for carrying out the final wishes expressed in your will (this person used to be called the executor).

You can name someone to be the liquidator in your will. It is a good idea to name more than one person in case your first choice cannot, or does not, want to be the liquidator.

3.2 What does a liquidator do?
[Student Manual, page 15]

The liquidator must:

• identify the people who can inherit;
• make a list of your property;
• collect money you are owed;
• pay your debts; and
• distribute your property to your heirs.

You should pay the liquidator something if the liquidator is not an heir.

3.3 What is probate?
[Student Manual, page 16]

Probate is a legal procedure that makes sure the will was written according to all the rules for making that kind of will. Probate does not check what is written in a will (the content), only how it was written (the form).

A will is probated to make sure that:

• you wrote the will;
• you have died; and
• the will was written according to the proper formalities.

3.4 When does a will have to be probated?

A holograph will and a will made before witnesses must be probated. A notarial will does not have to be probated.