Who pays probate attorney fees?

Who pays probate attorney fees?

Attorney Gadi Zohar explains:

Generally speaking, probate attorney fees come out of the estate. Not out of your pocket. That’s an important thing to keep in mind.

There are cases where an estate, for example, has a house and perhaps very little or no cash. If necessary, it is possible for the state to borrow money against the house if you’re not going to sell it, and then you distribute the house out with a small mortgage attached to it, or people can contribute their own funds if they want to take the house without a mortgage in those cases where there isn’t enough cash in the estate.

Otherwise a probate attorney fees are always paid out of the estate. They’re paid out of the cash in the estate or if there’s a house in the estate, you can sell the house and then the attorney fees are paid out of that cash.