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Utah personal representative compensation

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A personal representative is entitled to reasonable compensation. If an interested person objects, the court evaluates the quality, quantity, and value of services and the circumstances. A will provision may be renounced before qualification; the statute states no percentage schedule or separate extraordinary-services rate.

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

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Utah estate snapshot

Gross probate propertyNot yet counted
Court chargeMore information neededPetition opening a probate case in District Court2 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.A personal representative is entitled to reasonable compensation. If an interested person objects, the court evaluates the quality, quantity, and value of services and the circumstances. A will provision may be renounced before qualification; the statute states no percentage schedule or separate extraordinary-services rate.

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 Utah executor compensation works

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

Utah does not set a statewide percentage schedule.

The amount is not computable from estate value alone. This page therefore publishes no percentage result; it reports the reasonable-compensation standard the reviewed record supports instead.

What this state does not set

Utah does not set one statutory percentage to multiply by the estate. Do not substitute a neighboring state's rate or an informal fee table. The amount depends on the services and accounting in the particular administration, and the will may affect the compensation analysis where the governing rule allows it.

The governing compensation standard

(1) A personal representative and an attorney are entitled to reasonable compensation for their services. If a petition is filed which either directly or indirectly seeks approval of the personal representative's compensation or the attorney's compensation and if no objection is filed by an interested person to the compensation requested, reasonable compensation shall be the compensation sought in the petition. When an interested person objects to the personal representative's compensation, the court shall determine reasonable compensation for the personal representative based on the quality, quantity, and value of the services rendered to the estate and the circumstances under which those services were rendered, including the practice for other fiduciaries who are in similar circumstances to the personal representative in question.

How the amount is fixed

A personal representative is entitled to reasonable compensation. If an interested person objects, the court evaluates the quality, quantity, and value of services and the circumstances. A will provision may be renounced before qualification; the statute states no percentage schedule or separate extraordinary-services rate.

Keep the estate accounting, time and task log, receipts, and any will or compensation agreement together. Before taking a fee, ask the District Court how compensation is presented for review in this estate and whether an order or account approval is required. This page cannot decide what a court will consider reasonable.

Utah compensation map

Which figure the Utah fee rule actually measures

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

QuestionRecorded Utah answerCarry into the case
What route is being screened?Collection of personal property by affidavitConfirm 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; net of enforceable liens and encumbrances.Keep real property, liens, beneficiary transfers, and survivorship transfers classified separately.
What is the amount screen?$100,000Use the counted property, not a bank-balance shortcut.
What is the time or deadline record?30 days after death; Utah has separate bars: three months from first publication, the later of 90 days from published notice or 60 days from actual notice for a notified creditor, and an outer one-year-from-death bar for predeath claims. A single days value would collapse different triggers.Keep the event that starts each clock with the date; do not combine separate periods into one number.
What does the cost record establish?$375 is the recorded statewide amount.Ask the District Court about local surcharges, copies, publication, bond, and later filings.
What does compensation use?A personal representative is entitled to reasonable compensation. If an interested person objects, the court evaluates the quality, quantity, and value of services and the circumstances. A will provision may be renounced before qualification; the statute states no percentage schedule or separate extraordinary-services rate. The relevant base is the estate accounting.Keep the will, task log, receipts, and accounting base together; extraordinary work is separate.

Compensation record

The Utah 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.

Utah has no tier table this site can price from the accepted record. The controlling record is Utah Code § 75-3-718; read its quoted standard and ask the court how the fee is presented for approval.

Prepare a reasonable-compensation request

Because Utah does not publish a percentage table here, the useful output is a record of the work and the accounting figure the court can review. Keep the will or appointment order, the the estate accounting the rule names, a dated task log, receipts, and a separate list of extraordinary work. This worksheet does not predict what the District Court will approve.

(1) A personal representative and an attorney are entitled to reasonable compensation for their services. If a petition is filed which either directly or indirectly seeks approval of the personal representative's compensation or the attorney's compensation and if no objection is filed by an interested person to the compensation requested, reasonable compensation shall be the compensation sought in the petition. When an interested person objects to the personal representative's compensation, the court shall determine reasonable compensation for the personal representative based on the quality, quantity, and value of the services rendered to the estate and the circumstances under which those services were rendered, including the practice for other fiduciaries who are in similar circumstances to the personal representative in question.

Record to assembleWhy it matters to the Utah review
Will, appointment, or compensation agreementShows whether a document states a fee or leaves the amount to the reviewed standard.
Accounting baseSeparates the estate accounting from the gross asset list.
Dated task and time recordConnects the requested amount to the administration work actually performed.
Receipts and extraordinary-work listKeeps expenses and separately reviewable services out of an unexplained round number.

Case-file context

Keep the Utah 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 Utah 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

Utah uses a 30-day successor affidavit for a net estate capped at $100,000 and handles probate petitions in District Court. The affidavit transfers personal property, while the threshold counts the entire estate subject to administration.

After 30 days, a successor may use an affidavit when the entire estate subject to administration, wherever located and less liens and encumbrances, does not exceed $100,000. No personal-representative application may be pending or granted. The affidavit collects personal property; real property still counts in the threshold and is not transferred by this affidavit.

Cost context

A probate petition that invokes District Court jurisdiction and is not governed by another fee subsection uses the $375 general civil-petition fee. The cited version is effective May 6, 2026 and expressly superseded January 1, 2027.

$375 is the recorded statewide amount.

Deadline context

Utah has separate bars: three months from first publication, the later of 90 days from published notice or 60 days from actual notice for a notified creditor, and an outer one-year-from-death bar for predeath claims. A single days value would collapse different triggers.

  • The $375 filing-fee version is superseded January 1, 2027 and must be re-reviewed then.
  • The affidavit does not transfer real property, although real property subject to administration counts toward the cap.

Court-material note: The Utah Judiciary publishes a statewide probate self-help section with a dedicated Small estates page and a downloadable motor-vehicle small-estate affidavit form (both linked above). The general Utah Code § 75-3-1201 collection-by-affidavit route is driven by statutory content rather than a single universal blank, so the successor's own sworn affidavit meets the statute; the District Court clerk in the county of residence confirms local filing requirements.

Arithmetic illustration

See the Utah amount screen without mistaking it for a result

The recorded Utah ceiling is $100,000, and it is tested against probate property within the rule's stated scope, on a basis this site records as net of enforceable liens and encumbrances. Counted that way, $75,000 sits below the Utah figure and $125,000 sits above it. Both are comparisons to a published number rather than legal outcomes: two estates holding the same total can land on opposite sides of this line, because what Utah counts and how it values it are decided before the comparison is made.

Illustrative counted amountComparison to the Utah ceilingWhat it does not decide
$75,000Below $100,000Title, liens, waiting period, appointment, or creditor duties
$125,000Above $100,000Whether another statutory route or court process applies

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 Utah Judiciary publishes a statewide probate self-help section with a dedicated Small estates page and a downloadable motor-vehicle small-estate affidavit form (both linked above). The general Utah Code § 75-3-1201 collection-by-affidavit route is driven by statutory content rather than a single universal blank, so the successor's own sworn affidavit meets the statute; the District Court clerk in the county of residence confirms local filing requirements.

Source trail

Records used by this Utah map

Compensation source

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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