The executor says he had a verbal agreement with the deceased to do as he pleases with the estate

Most people who act as executors do so only once in a lifetime. This means there are an awful lot of rookie executors who don't have training or experience in the new job they've taken on. Of course there are going to be questions about the limits of the job. In some cases, the questions are small points of procedure asked by an executor is managing just fine, and in other cases, the executor