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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Other than that, the rates I listed are what I am seeing approved in contested PR fee hearings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>I find the rates discussed here shockingly low. Are the commissioner/judges that tight? For run of the mill decisions I could see a low rate of $25 an hour, but for tax or accounting work seemingly $75 an hour would not be enough. Seemingly fact gathering
or document review should be at whatever the firm's paralegal would be charged out at for doing the same work, and although I don't know current rates I suspect that's more than $75 an hour at most/many places.<span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p>I didn't charge when I was PR of my mom's estate. I guess I wasn't being as generous as I thought.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 11/2/2021 3:12 PM, Nicholas Pleasants wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">I’ve seen as high as $75/hr approved for a PR that was doing accounting/tax work himself, but that amount was rather shocking. I think $25-$50/hr is more in
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</b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com"><wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com></a> on behalf of Inge Fordham
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Please respond to the list. I’ve been generally advising $20-$30/hr. depending on what the PR had to do to administer the estate.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I would appreciate anyone’s input on recent experiences with the range of hourly rates that are being approved in King County for a family member acting as PR.<o:p></o:p></p>
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