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Georgia personal representative compensation

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Absent controlling will/agreement terms, the statutory defaults are 2.5% of sums received and 2.5% of sums paid out, plus 10% of qualifying interest. Delivery of property in kind may receive reasonable compensation capped at 3% of appraised/fair value, and other statutory categories may apply. HB 327 (2025) updated subsection (a) agreement language without restating the subsection (b) percentages.

Sources reviewed August 9, 2026. Latest primary-source re-fetch September 15, 2026.

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Georgia estate snapshot

Gross probate propertyNot yet counted
Court chargeMore information neededGeorgia probate filing2 asset entries have no value entered. A blank amount is not treated as zero, so the charge cannot be computed.Court charges only, for the proceeding named beside each figure. That proceeding is not always the route screened above.
Scheduled executor compensationMore information needed2 asset entries have no value entered.Absent controlling will/agreement terms, the statutory defaults are 2.5% of sums received and 2.5% of sums paid out, plus 10% of qualifying interest. Delivery of property in kind may receive reasonable compensation capped at 3% of appraised/fair value, and other statutory categories may apply. HB 327 (2025) updated subsection (a) agreement language without restating the subsection (b) percentages.

This route check is general information, not legal advice. It does not test every eligibility condition, creditor issue, will provision, local fee, or asset-title fact.

How Georgia executor compensation works

In Georgia, the personal representative (executor) is the person the court appoints, or the will nominates, to administer the estate. Georgia compensation is governed by state statute and, where the statute permits, by the terms of the will or a court order, so the lawful Georgia fee is whatever those authorities set — not a national rule of thumb.

The calculator above applies Georgia's reviewed statutory rule to the compensable estate value you enter. The Georgia figure does not include extraordinary fees — services beyond routine administration (such as litigation, tax elections, or real-property management) that the court may approve separately on top of the ordinary compensation.

In Georgia, the compensable amount is measured against the money the estate actually received and paid out, so two Georgia estates with the same headline size can produce different lawful fees when what they are made of differs. Enter the figure that matches that basis rather than the gross number on the first account statement, or the Georgia result will not reflect the rule the statute actually applies.

If the Georgia will names a specific compensation amount or formula, that term controls unless a beneficiary or the representative petitions the court for modification. When no will exists, or the will is silent on the point, the Georgia statutory rule becomes the presumptive measure of reasonable compensation for the work.

Georgia compensation map

Which figure the Georgia fee rule actually measures

A percentage is not a fee answer until its base is known. This Georgia map identifies the compensation standard and the accounting figure it uses, while keeping court approval and extraordinary work outside an invented total.

QuestionRecorded Georgia answerCarry into the case
What route is being screened?Petition for Order Declaring No Administration NecessaryConfirm that the will, prior appointment, family facts, and asset titles fit this route.
What property and basis count?probate property within the rule's stated scope; gross value for this route.Keep real property, liens, beneficiary transfers, and survivorship transfers classified separately.
What is the amount screen?No numeric ceiling verifiedEstablish unsecured debt before treating the screen as decided.
What is the time or deadline record?No waiting-period number verified; No deadline is recorded here: Georgia has multiple non-equivalent events, so no single days value is honest. The representative must initiate publication within 60 days after qualification and publish weekly for four weeks. A creditor notifying more than three months after the last publication loses equal participation against earlier distributions and cannot hold the representative liable, but late claims may still be paid when sufficient assets remain and higher-priority claims are paid. The representative also receives a six-month administration/payment protection. No distinct actual-notice deadline or ultimate repose period was verified.Keep the event that starts each clock with the date; do not combine separate periods into one number.
What does the cost record establish?$190 is the recorded statewide amount.Ask the Probate Court about local surcharges, copies, publication, bond, and later filings.
What does compensation use?Absent controlling will/agreement terms, the statutory defaults are 2.5% of sums received and 2.5% of sums paid out, plus 10% of qualifying interest. Delivery of property in kind may receive reasonable compensation capped at 3% of appraised/fair value, and other statutory categories may apply. HB 327 (2025) updated subsection (a) agreement language without restating the subsection (b) percentages. The relevant base is money received and paid out during administration.Keep the will, task log, receipts, and accounting base together; extraordinary work is separate.

Compensation record

The Georgia fee record, band by band

This is the registry view of the compensation rule, separate from the calculator result. It shows whether a rate schedule exists and what accounting base the schedule names. A blank band is not permission to borrow a percentage from another state.

Georgia has no tier table this site can price from the accepted record. The controlling record is Ga. L. 1996, Act No. 754; O.C.G.A. § 53-6-60(b); read its quoted standard and ask the court how the fee is presented for approval.

Case-file context

Keep the Georgia answer with its neighboring conditions

A route answer is easier to use when the facts that can change it stay in the same record. These are the reviewed Georgia descriptions adjacent to this page\'s main question; they are not a substitute for the source quotations or the receiving court\'s instructions.

Route context

Georgia uses a Probate Court order declaring no administration necessary, not a value-capped small-estate affidavit.

Georgia has no conventional dollar-threshold small-estate affidavit. An heir petitions the Probate Court for no administration necessary when the decedent died intestate, no administration exists, heirs agree on division, and the estate owes no debts or creditors consent/receive service and do not object. Real and personal property can be included; eligibility is structural, not monetary.

Cost context

Effective January 1, 2025, a Title 53 estate petition costs $190 in total: a $175 base fee (2024 SB 232 §1, amending O.C.G.A. §15-9-60(e)) plus a mandatory $15 civil filing fee that SB 232 §3 directs the clerk to collect "[i]n addition to all other legal costs ... in each civil action filed in the probate court", charged once per decedent proceeding on the listed estate petitions. Service, publication and any other statutory charges are extra.

$190 is the recorded statewide amount.

Deadline context

No deadline is recorded here: Georgia has multiple non-equivalent events, so no single days value is honest. The representative must initiate publication within 60 days after qualification and publish weekly for four weeks. A creditor notifying more than three months after the last publication loses equal participation against earlier distributions and cannot hold the representative liable, but late claims may still be paid when sufficient assets remain and higher-priority claims are paid. The representative also receives a six-month administration/payment protection. No distinct actual-notice deadline or ultimate repose period was verified.

  • No dollar threshold exists for no administration necessary; the numeric field is structurally inapplicable.
  • No universal waiting period was found for the Georgia procedure.
  • No creditor actual-notice-specific deadline or ultimate nonclaim/repose period was verified.
  • HB 327’s harvested enrolled text contains no express effective-date clause.
  • The $175 base was shipped as the operative opening fee while the mandatory $15 civil filing fee sat in the component list unused, so Georgia understated its own total by $15 — the same class of defect as Oklahoma's $188. Caught by the composed-figure gate, which requires the shipped total to equal the sum of its asserted components.

Court-material note: Georgia publishes a statewide standard no-administration petition and an official Probate Court directory.

No numeric shortcut is available for Georgia

This registry does not establish a numeric Georgia ceiling from an accepted primary source. The safe next step is to follow the reason and source lane on this page, then ask the Probate Court for the current rule rather than importing a neighboring state\'s amount.

Next evidence to collect

Bring the stated accounting base and the will or court instructions to the compensation discussion.

  1. Record the date of death, the county, and the exact proceeding or affidavit being considered.
  2. Classify each asset by title, beneficiary, trust, real-property status, and the value basis shown above.
  3. Open the official court material below and keep its form or schedule with the estate record.
  4. Do not distribute property until the route, creditor position, and required approvals are resolved.

Official material

Georgia publishes a statewide standard no-administration petition and an official Probate Court directory.

Source trail

Records used by this Georgia map

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Each legal input links to the government source reviewed for this page. Source text can change; confirm the current rule before acting.

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