When is the executor no longer responsible for the house?

What is the name of your state (NJ)?

Say a son is the executor of his mother's estate for 18 years. Once his mother dies the house goes to the mother's 2 daughters but not the son. Once that house has been put in the daughter's name after the mother passes away, is the executor of the estate no longer responsible for the selling of that house? In other words, are the 2 daughters on their own when it comes to selling the house? Does the executor (because he accepted the executor fee... in the thousands of dollars), have a responsibility to make sure the selling of that house goes smoothly or is he out of the picture? After all, the two daughters are not working together to get the house cleaned so they can sell it. Is the executor free of any responsibility of getting things going among the daughters?

Once the executor conveys the property to the beneficiaries, the beneficiaries own it, to do with as they wish.

anteater said:

Once the executor conveys the property to the beneficiaries, the beneficiaries own it, to do with as they wish.

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But what if the two of the beneficiaries don't do anything to clean out the house but one does. Is it the executor's responsibility to step up and force the two lazy beneficiaries to get their things out of the house and to sell it? Or, since the house was already passed on to the beneficiaries the executor no longer has anything to do with the house?

Once the executor has executed a deed conveying the property to the beneficiaries, it isn't the executor's problem.

The beneficiaries are no longer "beneficiaries." They are owners.

the executor's job is to see that deeds and titles are passed on to the rigth people. After this has been done and the new people legal own it then the executor's job is done and he/she no longer have any power to do anything.

In your expample the son was the executor and his job was to make sure the house was legaly trasnferd to the 2 daughters. If in the will it didn't leave any part of the house to the son then he has no say in what happens to the house now.

If the will has said something along the lines of the house was to be sold and the money giving to the daughters then maybehe migth have had some say in stuff but if the will just said that the daugthers get the house then once the paper work is done then hes done his work.

Say a son is the executor of his mother's estate for 18 years.

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Why isn't the court demanding the estate be closed?