Matter of Estate of Kunzler

BURNETT, Judge.

This appeal focuses upon an award of attorney fees to an heir who sought, and ultimately obtained, removal of a personal representative and sale of certain real property during administration of a decedent’s estate. Fees were awarded not by the magistrate, who declined to make such an award, but by the district judge on appeal. The district judge decided that the magistrate had acted under a misapprehension of the legal standard governing fee awards and that an award should have been made. *353For reasons explained below, we sustain the district court’s interpretation of the legal…