Estate of Coan v. Gaughan

Today, a majority of this court has upheld the circuit court’s decision to award a personal administrator attorney’s fees for the preparation and defense of his account-ings, as well as the circuit court’s ruling that the estate was also liable to the personal administrator for attorney’s fees he incurred in opposition to litigation brought by the estate to recoup funds allegedly misappropriated from the estate. I am in complete agreement -with the majority’s opinion affirming that portion of the fee award attributable to the accountings. However, Arkansas law does not permit the award of…