I am the executor and sole beneficiary to my grandpa's estate. I am the only person in the will, and we have no other family so no one will be contesting. I transferred 15,000 to my bank account to pay for an after the funeral party for him, I also payed for the funeral for my grandmother (who passed the day before his funeral) and for my grandfathers obituary. I had left over money and used it to pay off my own personal credit cards. The money was in a trust for my grandmother, then the will said after she passed, the money is mine free of trust. I assumed that this was okay to do that since I am the sole beneficiary and from what the will said. Now I was just told I couldn't that by my attorney. Everything needed to come out of the estate account and I couldn't borrow from it. I haven't told him that I borrowed, I asked him after the fact. The estate is worth around 1.5 million in cash + stocks and bonds. Do I pay this money back or did I just throw away 1.5 million for 15,000? Yup, I'm an idiot!