In Re Estate of Friedman

OPINION

KESSLER, Judge.

¶ 1 Dennis Friedman (“Dennis”) appeals from a probate court judgment requiring that a special administrator’s fees and costs for an investigation of a claim of elder abuse and breach of fiduciary duty against the trustee/personal representative be paid from trust bequests to the beneficiaries who brought the claim. We hold that those fees and costs may have been administrative expenses to be paid by the estate rather than by the individual beneficiaries if the claims against the personal representative were not malicious, i.e., their primary purpose was to determine if…