{"id":6076,"date":"2017-01-22T11:17:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T17:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6076"},"modified":"2017-01-22T11:17:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T17:17:59","slug":"administrators-do-not-have-to-be-relatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/22\/administrators-do-not-have-to-be-relatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Administrators do not Have to be Relatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Administrators do not have to be relatives of the deceased. Do not assume there were no relatives living nearby if a &#8220;non-relative&#8221; is appointed to administrate the estate. Administrators can be neighbors or others appointed by the court. In some locations relatives (including the spouse) may have to sign a waiver giving up their preferential right to act as administrator.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/administratots.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6077\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/administratots.jpg\" alt=\"administratots\" width=\"700\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/administratots.jpg 700w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/administratots-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/administratots-624x439.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The estate of Michael Trautfetter from Illinois in 1869 (shown in the illustration) was administrated by Julius Bierman. Bierman had no relationship connection to the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Administrators do not have to be relatives of the deceased. Do not assume there were no relatives living nearby if a &#8220;non-relative&#8221; is appointed to administrate the estate. Administrators can be neighbors or others appointed by the court. In some locations relatives (including the spouse) may have to sign a waiver giving up their preferential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6076","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\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}