Estate Settlement Cost
Menu

New Hampshire personal representative compensation

New Hampshire executor fee calculator

No personal-representative compensation standard was found in the harvested probate-title statutes. RSA 554:26, suggested during discovery, only requires annual accounts and does not set compensation; the Judiciary rules/resources needed for a further check returned HTTP 403.

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

1. Where and when
Private by design: entries stay in this browser.
2. Compensation base

Ownership determines whether an asset usually enters probate. Choose “Not sure” when title or beneficiary status has not been confirmed.

Asset 1

Asset 2

Your working estimate

New Hampshire estate snapshot

Gross probate propertyNot yet counted
Court chargeMore information neededPetition for Estate Administration (Circuit Court, Probate Division)2 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.No personal-representative compensation standard was found in the harvested probate-title statutes. RSA 554:26, suggested during discovery, only requires annual accounts and does not set compensation; the Judiciary rules/resources needed for a further check returned HTTP 403.

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 New Hampshire executor compensation works

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

This site publishes no compensation figure for New Hampshire.

No personal-representative compensation standard was found in the harvested probate-title statutes. RSA 554:26, suggested during discovery, only requires annual accounts and does not set compensation; the Judiciary rules/resources needed for a further check returned HTTP 403.

The calculator above will not return a New Hampshire compensation number, because there is no verified rule to apply. A percentage borrowed from a neighbouring state would look authoritative and be wrong: compensation rules differ sharply between states, and the base they apply to differs even where the rate matches. Some states pay on the whole estate, some only on personal property, and some on money actually received and paid out, so the same estate can produce very different lawful fees.

What to do instead. Ask the Circuit Court, Probate Division whether it publishes a compensation schedule, a local rule, or a standing order on fiduciary fees, and ask whether a fee request must be approved before or after the work. Read the will first: where a will fixes compensation, that term usually governs unless someone petitions to change it.

Whatever standard applies, the record is what determines the outcome. Keep a contemporaneous log of dates, hours, tasks and the reason each was necessary, and keep it separate from estate expenses you paid out of pocket. A representative who can show the work is in a far stronger position than one asking a court to accept a round number after the fact, and beneficiaries are entitled to see how a fee was arrived at.

New Hampshire compensation map

Which figure the New Hampshire fee rule actually measures

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

QuestionRecorded New Hampshire answerCarry into the case
What route is being screened?Summary administration (post-appointment closing)Confirm 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 verifiedUse the counted property, not a bank-balance shortcut.
What is the time or deadline record?No waiting-period number verified; New Hampshire uses appointment-based stages: no action in the first six months, exhibition and demand within six months after the original grant, and suit within one year after that grant, with suspension and statutory exceptions. These are distinct procedural deadlines rather than one claim-bar number.Keep the event that starts each clock with the date; do not combine separate periods into one number.
What does the cost record establish?1 published schedule; the proceeding and value basis control the total.Ask the Circuit Court, Probate Division about local surcharges, copies, publication, bond, and later filings.
What does compensation use?No compensation amount is recorded here: No personal-representative compensation standard was found in the harvested probate-title statutes. RSA 554:26, suggested during discovery, only requires annual accounts and does not set compensation; the Judiciary rules/resources needed for a further check returned HTTP 403.Keep the will, task log, receipts, and accounting base together; extraordinary work is separate.

Compensation record

The New Hampshire 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.

New Hampshire has no tier table this site can price from the accepted record. The accepted primary-source lane is still unresolved, so this site withholds a percentage.

Case-file context

Keep the New Hampshire 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 New Hampshire 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

New Hampshire probate is handled by the Circuit Court’s Probate Division, organized by county. Its summary-administration route is a post-appointment closing mechanism without a dollar cap, not a low-value affidavit procedure.

Summary administration is a closing procedure with no monetary cap. An administrator may move after the estate has been open at least six months, with no outstanding debts, obligations, unpaid or unresolved claims, taxes addressed, beneficiary assents, and no need for further court supervision. RSA 553:32 separately waives inventory, bond, and accounting in specified beneficiary/assent situations.

Cost context

The New Hampshire Circuit Court Probate Division publishes a statewide estate-administration filing fee that steps with estate value: a Petition for Estate Administration is $150 for a value of $10,000 or less, $205 for $10,001 to $25,000, and $305 for more than $25,000 (schedule effective 07/01/2025, issued under Probate Division Rule 169 and RSA 490:26-a). The footnoted total is the base fee plus any Supreme-Court-authorized surcharges; certified-mail and later-accounting fees are separate.

1 published schedule; the proceeding and value basis control the total.

Deadline context

New Hampshire uses appointment-based stages: no action in the first six months, exhibition and demand within six months after the original grant, and suit within one year after that grant, with suspension and statutory exceptions. These are distinct procedural deadlines rather than one claim-bar number.

  • Executor compensation remains UNKNOWN because the suggested RSA does not address compensation and the official court materials returned 403.
  • The estate-administration filing fee is now pinned from the official Circuit Court Filing Fees PDF (tiered $150 / $205 / $305, effective 07/01/2025); the HTML fee/forms pages remain HTTP 403 to a machine fetch, and the PDF's Drupal path (documents/2021-06/) could change on re-upload, so the URL needs re-verification each release.

Court-material note: The official Circuit Court Probate Division HTML and forms pages return HTTP 403 to a machine fetch, but the official Circuit Court Filing Fees PDF (effective 07/01/2025) is machine-fetchable and returns the estate-administration fee table verbatim; it is the pinned fee source. RSA 490-F:3 creates the Probate Division, and RSA 490-F:4 makes each county a judicial district for that division.

No numeric shortcut is available for New Hampshire

This registry does not establish a numeric New Hampshire ceiling from an accepted primary source. The safe next step is to follow the reason and source lane on this page, then ask the Circuit Court, Probate Division 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

The official Circuit Court Probate Division HTML and forms pages return HTTP 403 to a machine fetch, but the official Circuit Court Filing Fees PDF (effective 07/01/2025) is machine-fetchable and returns the estate-administration fee table verbatim; it is the pinned fee source.

RSA 490-F:3 creates the Probate Division, and RSA 490-F:4 makes each county a judicial district for that division.

Source trail

Records used by this New Hampshire map

Continue in New Hampshire