Texas Estates Code 352.003 – Alternate Compensation
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(a) The court may allow an executor, administrator, or temporary administrator reasonable compensation for the executor’s or administrator’s services, including unusual efforts to collect funds or life insurance, if:
(1) the executor or administrator manages a farm, ranch, factory, or other business of the estate; or
(2) the compensation calculated under Section 352.002 is unreasonably low.
(b) The county court has jurisdiction to receive, consider, and act on applications from independent executors for purposes of this section.
Terms Used In Texas Estates Code 352.003
- Court: means and includes:
(1) a county court in the exercise of its probate jurisdiction;
(2) a court created by statute and authorized to exercise original probate jurisdiction; and
(3) a district court exercising original probate jurisdiction in a contested matter. See Texas Estates Code 22.007 - Estate: means a decedent's property, as that property:
(1) exists originally and as the property changes in form by sale, reinvestment, or otherwise;
(2) is augmented by any accretions and other additions to the property, including any property to be distributed to the decedent's representative by the trustee of a trust that terminates on the decedent's death, and substitutions for the property; and
(3) is diminished by any decreases in or distributions from the property. See Texas Estates Code 22.012 - Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.