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Cal. Rules of Court, rule 7.702 · Chapter 15. Compensation of Personal Representatives and Attorneys

Petition for extraordinary compensation

Verbatim from the official edition

Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)

A petition for extraordinary compensation must include, or be accompanied by, a statement of the facts upon which the petition is based. The statement of facts must:

(1) Show the nature and difficulty of the tasks performed;

(2) Show the results achieved;

(3) Show the benefit of the services to the estate;

(4) Specify the amount requested for each category of service performed;

(5) State the hourly rate of each person who performed services and the hours spent by each of them;

(6) Describe the services rendered in sufficient detail to demonstrate the productivity of the time spent; and

(7) State the estimated amount of statutory compensation to be paid by the estate, if the petition is not part of a final account or report.

Notes and commentary — not rule text

History

Rule 7.702 adopted effective January 1, 2003.

Source of truth

Edition
As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
Official file
https://courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index/seven/rule7_702
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sha256 694910c81a5eac526bab5d269c734a089720778b72ef6e04070e47ec0241e621
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compose_crc.py 2026-10-22: the Judicial Council's rule pages read paragraph by paragraph; verify_crc.py's second reading of the Council's per-title PDFs finds every paragraph

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