Utah Code § 75-3-718
Utah Code § 75-3-718, personal-representative compensation
- When a petition asks the court to approve the personal representative’s or the attorney’s pay and no interested person objects, the amount asked for is the reasonable amount.
- If someone objects to the personal representative’s pay, the court sets it from the quality, quantity and value of the work, the circumstances it was done in, and what other fiduciaries in a similar position are paid.
- Whoever files a petition to approve or object to either fee must send a copy to every interested person at least 10 days before the hearing, by certified, registered or first-class mail or by hand.
- A representative whose will names a fee, with no contract with the decedent about pay, can give that fee up before qualifying and take reasonable pay instead, and can waive all or part of any fee in writing filed with the court.
The section’s own words
(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.
What this means: Quoted from the Utah Legislature's official PDF of the section, which prints it in full.