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Your Fiduciaries should possess certain traits. 

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First and foremost, the Fiduciaries of all of your Estate Planning documents (i.e., your Agent under your Power of Attorney, your Surrogate under your Living Will, your Trustee under your Trust, and your Executor under your Will) should possess the primary traits of being able and willing.

Without these two critically vital qualities, you risk the effectiveness of that particular Estate Planning document at the worst time - the time it is needed most. 

As you continue through this section, there are additional traits that I list with each separate Estate Planning document that I have found should greatly affect your choice of the Fiduciaries of that particular Estate Planning document.