Legal Opinion
In Re Estate of Watkins
Nebraska Supreme Court
Decided June 11, 1993No. S-90-1036PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtShanahan, J.
In this appeal, the question is whether a personal representative is entitled to compensation and an attorney fee for the personal representative’s lawyer in defending an action brought by devisees to surcharge and remove the personal representative, when the personal representative is surcharged but not removed from the office of personal representative.
At the time of her death on February 24, 1985, Louise C. Watkins owned property valued at approximately $100,000. On April 12, a petition for informal probate of Louise Watkins’ will was filed in the county court for Perkins County, and…
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