{"id":3267,"date":"2015-08-24T12:27:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T16:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=3267"},"modified":"2016-09-26T10:49:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T14:49:33","slug":"counsel-fees-not-justified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=3267","title":{"rendered":"Counsel Fees Not Justified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Counsel fees of $34,848, paid from an estate of $102,852, reduced to $18,000, and executor surcharged for excess, when the testimony of counsel was conclusory and failed to justify the fee paid from an estate with no unusual complexities or difficulties.\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Susick Estate<\/em>, 6 Fid.Rep.3d 209, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.phila.gov\/pdf\/opinions\/143953_824201510197222.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">No. 886 DE of 2013<\/a> (O.C. Philadelphia Co. 8\/18\/2015) (Opinion sur appeal by Carrafiello, J.), <em>aff&#8217;d<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A08007-16m.pdf?cb=2\">No. 1518 EDA 2015<\/a> (Pa.Super. 5\/11\/16) (non-precedential).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counsel fees of $34,848, paid from an estate of $102,852, reduced to $18,000, and executor surcharged for excess, when the testimony of counsel was conclusory and failed to justify the fee paid from an estate with no unusual complexities or &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=3267\">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":[164,161],"class_list":["post-3267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-executor-commission","tag-surcharge","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267","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=3267"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4083,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions\/4083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}