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You can appoint anyone you’d like as a personal representative in Colorado as long as they’re over the age of 21 and competent. Now, you’ll say in your will, I I nominate my son, Fred. But if others object to Fred, they can go to court and bring up reasons why Fred’s a poor choice. I recently had a case where the person who well this one was by statute rather than by the will where the person was an eighttime felon and was trying to get himself appointed as a personal representative and it was clear he was just going to steal the money from his niece. So, it wasn’t hard to get him taken away, to have the court not appoint him as the personal representative, but pretty much anyone you want. And there are banks, there are CPAs, there are attorneys who will act as a personal representative for you if you don’t have a relative to do it. In the case where none of those applies, the court will appoint what’s called a special administrator, people that the court has approved before to do