1. At the time of the filing of the final account and of a petition for an order for final distribution of the estate, the personal representative or the attorney for the personal representative may file a petition with the court for an order fixing and allowing the compensation of the attorney for the personal representative for all services rendered in the estate proceeding.
2. The request for compensation described in subsection 1 may be included in the final account or in the petition for an order for final distribution of the estate or may be made in a separate petition.
3. The clerk shall set the petition for hearing and the petitioner shall give notice of the petition to the personal representative if he or she is not the petitioner and to all known heirs in an intestacy proceeding and devisees in a will proceeding. The notice must be given for the period and in the manner provided in NRS 155.010. If a complete copy of the petition is not attached to the notice, the notice must include a statement of the amount of the compensation which the court will be requested to approve or allow and the manner in which the compensation was determined.
4. On the hearing, the court shall make an order fixing and allowing the compensation for all services rendered in the estate proceeding. The order must authorize the personal representative to pay the attorney out of the estate the amount of compensation allowed by the court pursuant to this subsection less any amount paid to the attorney out of the estate pursuant to NRS 150.065.
(Added to NRS by 2009, 1631)
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 150 - Compensation and Accounting
NRS 150.010 - Expenses and compensation of personal representative.
NRS 150.020 - General compensation.
NRS 150.025 - Compensation of personal representative who is an attorney.
NRS 150.030 - Compensation for extraordinary services.
NRS 150.040 - Contracts for higher compensation void.
NRS 150.050 - Allowance on compensation.
NRS 150.061 - Attorneys for personal representatives: Compensation for extraordinary services.
NRS 150.075 - Waiver of accounting.
NRS 150.080 - First account: Filing and contents.
NRS 150.100 - Penalties for failure to file first account.
NRS 150.105 - Annual account: Contents.
NRS 150.110 - Final account: Filing; penalties for failure to file.
NRS 150.115 - Supplementary account to final account.
NRS 150.120 - Accounting when authority of personal representative ceases.
NRS 150.140 - Revocation of letters when personal representative absconds and fails to account.
NRS 150.160 - Account and petition for settlement: Hearing and notice.
NRS 150.170 - Contest of account: Rights of interested person; hearing.
NRS 150.190 - Proof of notice necessary before allowance of account.
NRS 150.200 - Allowance and confirmation of account.
NRS 150.210 - Effect of order settling account.
NRS 150.250 - Claims not yet due and contingent or disputed claim.
NRS 150.260 - Liability of personal representative.
NRS 150.270 - Claim not included in order of payment.
NRS 150.280 - Closing administration.
NRS 150.310 - Proration of tax among persons interested in estate; exceptions.
NRS 150.320 - Direction for apportionment of estate tax: Precedence; limitation.
NRS 150.330 - Jurisdiction of court; methods of proration.
NRS 150.340 - Present and future estates: Charge of tax against corpus without apportionment.