In Re Estate of Preston
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
POPOVICH, Judge:
This appeal questions the manner of the calculation of executor’s commissions and attorney’s fees due for the administration of a'decedent’s estate. Herein, for the purposes of calculating the commissions and fees due, the orphans’ court included, as assets of the estate, marital assets which passed outside the estate. The court also calculated the commissions and fees using an arbitrary percentage-formula promulgated by the court via a schedule called “the Attorney General’s Schedule of Attorney’s Fees.” 1 We dismiss this appeal as it is interlocutory. However, in an effort…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Hempstead v. Meadville Theological SchoolSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1926
- In Re Estate of BreyerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1977
- Holmes EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1964
- Williamson EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1951
- Clingerman v. SadowskiSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1986
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3Cited by12 opinions
- In Re Estate of BorkowskiSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2002
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- Commonwealth v. TainanSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1999
- Estate of Andrews, C. Appeal of:Winsor, J.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 2026
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