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Home / My brother and I were appointed as executors of our late mother’s estate. We are not interested in being paid for administering the estate. Can the court still order that we be paid if we do nothing active about it ?

My brother and I were appointed as executors of our late mother’s estate. We are not interested in being paid for administering the estate. Can the court still order that we be paid if we do nothing active about it ?

By: דיאנה שאלתיאל•Published on: 13 May, 2022

Yes ! The 1965 Inheritance Act empowers the court with discretion to set a fee for the executor’s services in administering the estate. From the wording of the act the court can set such a fee even if the executor did not request it.

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