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Call Now: 904-383-7448Personal representatives shall be allowed reasonable expenses incurred in the administration of the estate, including without limitation expenses for travel, the expenses and premiums incurred in securing a bond, and the expenses of counsel and other agents. Such reasonable expenses shall be determined after such notice, if any, as the court shall direct.
(Code 1981, §53-6-61, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10; Ga. L. 1998, p. 1586, § 28.)
This section replaces former OCGA Secs. 53-6-147 through 53-6-149 (which enumerated various expenses that were allowed) with a general provision allowing the personal representative those reasonable expenses that are incurred in the course of the administration of the estate.
- When an administrator became subject to certain expenses related to the administrator's bond, namely the bonding company's litigation costs due to actions by the heirs of the estate, such expense fell within the scope of O.C.G.A. § 53-6-61 as a necessary cost of administration. Fowler v. Smith, 243 Ga. App. 469, 533 S.E.2d 739 (2000).
- Probate court did not err in failing to order a decedent's son to reimburse the estate for attorney fees because the executor testified that the bills for attorney fees were for services rendered on behalf of settlement of the estate, and not for defending the son on a daughter's motion to have the son removed as executor. In re Estate of Long, 307 Ga. App. 896, 706 S.E.2d 704 (2011).
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