{"id":25271,"date":"2025-05-03T04:50:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T09:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=25271"},"modified":"2025-05-03T04:50:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T09:50:27","slug":"bondsmen-for-executors-or-administrators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/bondsmen-for-executors-or-administrators\/","title":{"rendered":"Bondsmen for Executors or Administrators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A bondsman on an executor\u2019s or administrator\u2019s bond is guaranteeing that if the executor or administrator of the estate runs off with the estate\u2019s property without paying the bills of the estate that the court can come after the individuals who signed the executor\u2019s or administrator\u2019s bond. Generally speaking, if someone signed the bond your ancestor posted as an estate administrator, that bondsman trusted your ancestor enough to know that he wouldn\u2019t run off leaving unpaid bills of the estate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the judge knew that the bondsmen were \u201cworth enough\u201d to cover the value of the estate if the administrator defrauded the estate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The value of the bond represented what the bondsmen \u201cwere worth\u201d to cover the estate\u2013usually a multiple of the value of the estate. It was not cash they put up at the time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/administrator-bond.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"808\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/administrator-bond.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/administrator-bond.jpg 808w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/administrator-bond-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/administrator-bond-768x347.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/administrator-bond-624x282.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 808px) 100vw, 808px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bondsman on an executor\u2019s or administrator\u2019s bond is guaranteeing that if the executor or administrator of the estate runs off with the estate\u2019s property without paying the bills of the estate that the court can come after the individuals who signed the executor\u2019s or administrator\u2019s bond. Generally speaking, if someone signed the bond your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}