Are Probate costs regulated?
The costs of the legal work of and incidental to obtaining the grant of Probate, up to delivery of the grant of Probate by the court, are regulated as to the maximum amount chargeable. The current scale applies in respect of persons dying after 5 March 1993, and the amount chargeable under the scale is required, under the Costs Rules, to be disclosed to the executor at the time when instructions are first received by the solicitor, together with the basis and expected amount of charges for legal work done in the administration of the estate after the grant of Probate.
