<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Jakob - </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">I have never dealt with this issue before but I want to believe that the Court would strike this down as being void as to public policy grounds. Being an Executor/PR/Administrator is a job. There are legal duties, responsibilities, obligations, and penalties if not done right. To force someone to do a job without the ability to take compensation, especially in those difficult matters, would seem illogical. If all the parties wanted to throw up their hands and bring in a neutral - would they expect a professional to do it for free because the Will says so?<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Honestly, I would reach out to our local professionals and see if they have ever encountered this because I just don't know how that term could be enforced. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">As always when I have nothing to back me up, I could be entirely wrong and would love to see someone else who may have had to bring this to the Court to weigh in. </div><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Brent
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">We have another unusual situation here wherein the Will of the decedent prohibits the personal representative from taking a fee. This is clearly an internet Will that the decedent modified and
had properly executed. At issue here is that all the named executors failed to act, and another family member (our client) stepped forward to administer the Estate (the PR is a beneficiary by operation of a named beneficiary’s death).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">The PR was appointed with nonintervention powers. The other beneficiaries have been challenging to work with throughout the administration, so the PR is interested in collecting a fee for her
time and effort. I’m aware of statutory provisions for the PR to renounce a fee when it is inappropriate, but I want to understand how RCW 11.48.210 comes into play when the Will prohibits a fee. I read the following section as permitting the Court to award
a fee even when “no compensation is provided in the will” to cover our situation. This tracks with the broad authority Courts have to determine whether a fee is just and reasonable. But I could also see this as only applying the absence of any direction in
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<p class="MsoNormal">RCW 11.48.210:<i> The personal representative, when no compensation is provided in the will, or when he or she renounces all claim to the compensation provided in the will, shall be allowed such compensation for his or her services as the
court shall deem just and reasonable.</i><i><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
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