It is with some relief in the legal profession that the uncertainty over the increase in probate court fees was ended last autumn following the announcement from the Ministry of Justice that the fees ...

State officials are weighing whether to pull back on an unprecedented spike in probate court fees that some critics say effectively amounts to a surcharge on Connecticut’s estate tax. A recent panel ...

Many bereaved families will have more time to apply for probate at a lower cost, as the Government's planned fees hike has been delayed and the date for it to come into force has not yet been set. In ...

Can you justify hiking a fee by up to 9,200 per cent, so that it’s completely disproportionate to the service involved? What about a rise from £215 to £4,000 for a charge affecting families where a ...

More than a dozen years after the Texas Supreme Court demanded the disclosure of fees ordered paid by probate judges to court-appointed attorneys, the corruption-fighting measure has been ignored by ...

Harris County probate judges handed out $8.5 million in fees in one year — far more than any other county in Texas — to private, hand-picked lawyers and others tasked with managing the estates of the ...

It is with some relief in the legal profession that the uncertainty over the increase in probate court fees was ended last autumn following the announcement from the Ministry of Justice that the fees ...