{"id":140,"date":"2014-08-28T12:32:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T12:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delandattorneys.com\/?p=140"},"modified":"2026-01-27T13:59:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T18:59:40","slug":"do-the-personal-representative-and-attorney-for-the-personal-representative-receive-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delandattorneys.com\/blog\/do-the-personal-representative-and-attorney-for-the-personal-representative-receive-compensation\/","title":{"rendered":"Do the Personal Representative and Attorney for the Personal Representative Receive Compensation?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yes, the personal representative and the attorney for the personal representative are entitled to reasonable compensation by law. Florida law provides a schedule of what are \u201creasonable fees.\u201d Typically this amount is based upon the value of the probate estate. As a general rule, 3% of the estate value is considered reasonable compensation. However, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delandattorneys.com\/blog\/should-the-personal-representative-hire-an-attorney\/\" title=\"Should the Personal Representative Hire an Attorney?\">personal representative<\/a> may establish a different fee with the attorney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the personal representative and the attorney for the personal representative are entitled to reasonable compensation by law. Florida law provides a schedule of what are \u201creasonable fees.\u201d Typically this amount is based upon the value of the probate estate. As a general rule, 3% of the estate value is considered reasonable compensation. However, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-is","tag-personal-representative"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delandattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delandattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delandattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delandattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delandattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.delandattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395,"href":"https:\/\/www.delandattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delandattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delandattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delandattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}