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published: '2015-10-05T21:10:07.000Z'
modified: '2020-07-07T10:49:27.000Z'
section: Personal Finance
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## Did you ever want to be a personal-finance advice columnist? Here’s your chance.

In Money’s “Readers to the Rescue” department, we publish questions from readers seeking help with sticky financial situations, along with advice from other readers on how to solve those problems. Here’s our latest reader question:

> My wife's sister is the executor of her parents' estate, but she is terrible when it comes to financial details in general. Can we do anything to fix the situation before her parents pass away?

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