Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in Florida

Re: Trusts/wills and notorization

A trustee is in charge of managing a trust, has what is called "legal title" to the assets, and owes a fiduciary duty to the beneficiaries of the trust. A personal representative is in charge of seeing that the estate of a decedent is properly probated (assets are marshalled and protected, creditors are paid, and the estate is distributed to the appropriate beneficiaries of a will or to the heirs if there is no will). They each have the respective powers granted to them by statutes for each job. These powers can be modified in the instruments in question (the trust documents and the will) so I don't know in this specific instance what each one is allowed to do but generally, they are each allowed to sell assets, to invest, to do what is necessary to protect the assets of which they are in charge, make distributions, etc.