Probate fees for attorneys are not cheap. Also you will have to remember that the attorney gets his fees before the Probate case is finished. Yep. You cannot just take the fees out of the estate once you are in control.
Where is the will being probated?
Has any attorney started on this probate yet? If no attorney has started on this may I suggest that you contact the Clerk's Office at the Probate Section of the courthouse where the will is to be probated. The nice personnel at the probate office can assist you in showing you what forms need to be filled out and maybe help you once you have filled the forms out to be sure they are filled out correctly. When I prepared paperwork for probate court, each paper had to be filled out properly and if the paper was not filled out properly, the nice ladies at the probate court would call me and tell me I was missing some information. Probate work is very exacting, believe me, and if all the information is not properly contained in the forms, the Probate Judge will NOT even get to look it over until it is properly filled out.
Oh, yes, do you have the ORIGINAL will? You will need the original if you are going to be doing the probate paperwork yourself.
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