Can an executor lease inherited farmland after it passed to heirs? | NC

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Q: Can an executor lease inherited farmland if the real estate already passed to the heirs? A: Usually no. When real estate passes to the heirs at death, the executor does not automatically have power to lease it just because probate is still open. An executor may have that power only if the will clearly gives it, if the executor gets proper court authority because the land is needed to pay…