Wehle v. Bradley

I respectfully dissent from Part III.B of the majority opinion; I concur with the remainder of the opinion. I do not believe the trial court erred by rejecting the daughters’ claim that the personal representatives should pay interest on the compensation they had paid themselves without prior court approval.

The majority quotes Ruttenberg v. Friedman, 97 So.3d 114, 134-35 (Ala.2012), for the proposition that “ ‘any error in the prior payment of [a personal representative’s] fees for ordinary services without prior court approval is moot’ ” once the court “ ‘issue[s] its final award, after…