The proposed increase in fees was due to start in April but was delayed due to lack of Parliamentary time to pass the statutory instrument needed to implement the increase. The prospect of a ...

State officials are weighing whether to pull back on an unprecedented spike in probate court fees that some critics say effectively amounts to a surcharge on Connecticut’s estate tax. A recent panel ...

Many bereaved families will have more time to apply for probate at a lower cost, as the Government's planned fees hike has been delayed and the date for it to come into force has not yet been set. In ...

What are Connecticut legislators thinking? On one hand, they put in a new $20 million estate tax cap that sure seems like a naked bid to keep hedge funders in the state. You’d have to have assets of ...

Can you justify hiking a fee by up to 9,200 per cent, so that it’s completely disproportionate to the service involved? What about a rise from £215 to £4,000 for a charge affecting families where a ...

Harris County probate judges handed out $8.5 million in fees in one year — far more than any other county in Texas — to private, hand-picked lawyers and others tasked with managing the estates of the ...

Grieving families are set to face a 10 per cent hike in probate fees despite waiting as much as two years for vital documents to deal with their dead loved one's affairs. The costs for applying for a ...

It is with some relief in the legal profession that the uncertainty over the increase in probate court fees was ended last autumn following the announcement from the Ministry of Justice that the fees ...