File Code: Estates and Trusts
- Sponsored By:
-
Senator Della
- Entitled:
-
Estates and Trusts - Personal Representatives - Compensation
Requiring a lawyer who prepares a will naming the lawyer as personal
representative to disclose to the client that personal representatives
are entitled to reasonable compensation and how the maximum amount of
compensation is computed; requiring the disclosure to be in writing
and signed by the client; and providing that a lawyer who fails to
make the required disclosure is not entitled to compensation for
services as personal representative.
Senate Action
- 1/27
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 1/31
- Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/4
- Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
House Action
- No Action
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ATTORNEYS
- DISCLOSURE
- ESTATES AND TRUSTS
- PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES
- SALARIES -see also- OVERTIME
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Estates and Trusts
- (
4-102.1 ,
7-601
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered