In Re the Conservatorship of Miller

OPINION

KLAPHAKE, Judge.

After a conservator retained appellant, attorney Mary Ferris Jensen, to defend against a county’s petition to appoint a successor conservator, the district court denied appellant’s request for attorney fees and costs to be paid from the conser-vatee’s estate. Appellant contends that the district court misapplied Minn.Stat. § 525.703 (2000), regarding the types of services for which attorney fees may be recovered in conservatorships, and that the court erred in failing to award fees under Minn.Stat. § 525.515 (2000), a more general provision controlling the award of…