In re Estate of Perry

Appellant, an attorney and the ancillary administrator of the Perry estate, appeals from a decree of distribution in which the probate court ordered him to pay the heirs of the estate $1,000 in imputed interest because of his failure for more than fifteen months to place approximately $22,000 of estate funds into an interest-bearing account for the benefit of the heirs. Appellant argues that the court erred because (1) he had no duty to place estate funds in an interest-bearing account absent a request by the parties or an order by the court to do so, and (2) he had no reason to believe that…