Cal. Fin. Code § 608

The compensation of civil service employees, special deputies, counsel, and other employees and assistants appointed to assist in the conservation or liquidation of any licensee and the distribution of its assets and all expenses of supervision and liquidation shall be fixed by the commissioner and shall be paid out of the funds of the licensee in the hands of the commissioner. The expenses of liquidation shall be reported to the court upon each application for payment of a dividend.