Court declined to approve executor's accounting

On this blog we talk quite a bit about what an executor should and shouldn't do when acting on behalf of an estate. This story is about what not to do. It involves an executor who included a charge for $96,000 in accounting fees. The judge refused to approve the accounts. The judge in this case is giving the executor a chance to give some evidence backing up that fee, which the judge thought was way out of line. It remains to be seen what the judge will decide to do in the end. Click here to read this story about the case, called Re Hall Estate, from the blog of BC lawyer Stan Rule.