Estate of Davis

WATHEN, Justice.

On a petition to review fees filed by personal representative Stuart E. Hayes, the Somerset County Probate Court approved a fee of $44,700 for services as personal representative of the estate of Linea A. Davis. Benjamin D. Harrington, Sr., and James B. Harrington, Jr., residual beneficiaries under the will of Linea Davis, appeal the Probate Court’s order, challenging the reasonableness of the fee, which Hayes admitted was based on a fixed percentage of the decedent’s estate, under the Maine Probate Code. We conclude that the court erred in its determination of reasonableness,…