Corporate Johnson Matthey provides a full range of international platinum group metals management services. These include: the operation of client metal accounts, pricing alternatives for buying or selling PGM and arranging delivery of metals to international locations.
In most circumstances, the beneficiaries may well approve a 5% fee to the executor. In many instances however, when contested, the courts will not allow the executor be paid the maximum 5% of the gross aggregate value of the estate.
In most states, executors are entitled to take a percentage of the estate's value, even if a fee wasn't specified in a will. But with those legal guidelines, it's still common for executor fees to become a source of conflict with heirs. Some family members may view the money as their own or be unaware of the time you've invested. Elizabeth Haase, a Washington, D.C., psychologist, says administering a friend's estate was like a second job.