[WSBAPT] Personal Representative Charges a Percent of the Estate as Personal Representative Fee

[Jeff Davis]

Listmates, 

 

This is a new one for me in over 38 years of practice.  Personal
Representative does not keep track of time but claims that she and her
husband spent hundreds of hours working on behalf of the estate.  Put aside
the issue of the husband wanting to be paid for his time from the estate,
their attorney is now telling me that the PR can charge, as her fee, 3% of
the value of the estate however you figure that out.  This probate has been
going on for over a year with no inventory or accounting, yet the estate is
ready to close.  And yes, I had brought a motion to remove the PR months
ago, but put if off as PR was moving ahead with liquidating assets.  Your
thoughts on the "legality" of the fee?

 

Jeff Davis

 

W. Jeff Davis, Esq.

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