If any personal representative or person nominated as personal representative defends or prosecutes any proceeding in good faith, whether successful or not he is entitled to receive from the estate his necessary expenses and disbursements including reasonable attorneys' fees incurred.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 30-2481
Expenses in estate litigation
Applied in 11 court decisions — leading case In Re Estate of Chrisp (2009)
Most recently applied in 32 Neb. Ct. App. 191 - In re Estate of Chess (August 2023)
Laws 1974, LB 354, § 159, UPC § 3-720.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Nebraska Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nebraska statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.