{"id":12516,"date":"2026-08-09T20:51:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T00:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=12516"},"modified":"2026-08-09T20:52:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T00:52:59","slug":"burden-of-establishing-reasonableness-of-fees-was-on-executor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=12516","title":{"rendered":"Burden of Establishing Reasonableness of Fees Was on Executor (Pa. Super.)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Orphans&#8217; Court erred as matter of law in allowing legal fees and executor&#8217;s commission based only on a percentage of the value of the estate, and in placing the burden on the objectants to show that the resulting fees and commissions were unreasonable.  <em>Estate of Clea Andrews, Deceased<\/em>, ___ A.4th ___, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A16019-26o%20-%20106872751368421514.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">2026 PA Super 168<\/a> (7\/31\/2026). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orphans&#8217; Court erred as matter of law in allowing legal fees and executor&#8217;s commission based only on a percentage of the value of the estate, and in placing the burden on the objectants to show that the resulting fees &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=12516\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[146,164],"class_list":["post-12516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-attorney-fees","tag-executor-commission","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12516"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12519,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516\/revisions\/12519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}