Estate Settlement Cost

North Carolina personal representative compensation

North Carolina executor fee calculator

The clerk may allow compensation up to 5% of receipts and expenditures. This is a ceiling, not an automatic award.

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1. Where and when
Other personalty and income received by the estate after the inventory, entered one account or report at a time

North Carolina charges the opening inventory and each later account or report separately, and sets a minimum for every filing. Three accounts of $1,000 are three separate charges, not one charge on $3,000, so enter each account or report on its own line. This does not affect the small-estate limit. Enter 0 if nothing further was received; leaving a line blank keeps the charge undecided.

2. Compensation base

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

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Your working estimate

North Carolina estate snapshot

Gross probate propertyNot yet counted
Court chargeMore information neededAdministration of a decedent estateAt least one asset has no amount 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 neededAt least one asset has no amount entered.The clerk may allow compensation up to 5% of receipts and expenditures. This is a ceiling, not an automatic award.

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.

Compensation source

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