In the Matter of Estate of Bobbitt

We are asked to decide whether, after the personal representatives have filed a declaration of completion, the superior court may reassert jurisdiction over a nonintervention probate to review the personal representatives' fees and expenses. We hold that the court may do so.

Richard and Kenneth Bobbitt, personal representatives under the nonintervention will of their father, procured an order of solvency in the usual course of the probate proceedings. In due course, they filed a declaration of completion (RCW 11.68.110), which disclosed the attorneys fees paid, 1 that the Bobbitts had each…