K.S.A. 59-1717
Reviewed source note: just and reasonable. At any time during administration the fiduciary may apply to the court for an allowance upon his or her compensation and upon attorneys' fees.
Kansas personal representative compensation
Kansas executor fees
K.S.A. 59-1717 entitles a fiduciary to 'just and reasonable' compensation for services, plus necessary expenses; there is no statutory percentage schedule. The court reviews reasonableness, and a will provision on compensation is honored subject to the statute.
Sources reviewed August 9, 2026. Latest primary-source re-fetch October 3, 2026.
How Kansas sets executor compensation
Kansas sets no percentage schedule, so no fee can be computed from the estate value. The District Court decides what is reasonable for the work actually done; the governing text is quoted in the source below.
Kansas publishes no percentage at all, and pays the fiduciary and the attorney under the same standard
K.S.A. 59-1717 is one sentence of entitlement. “Every fiduciary shall be allowed his or her necessary expenses incurred in the execution of his or her trust, and shall have such compensation for services and those of his or her attorneys as shall be just and reasonable.” There is no schedule, no percentage, and no cap — so any Kansas figure expressed as a percentage of the estate comes from custom or from a court’s order in a particular case, not from this statute.
Note what the sentence joins together. The fiduciary’s compensation and the attorneys’ compensation are governed by the single standard “just and reasonable,” rather than by separate provisions. Expenses are treated differently again: they are allowed as “necessary” expenses incurred in executing the trust, which is a question of fact rather than of reasonableness of a rate.
The timing provision is the practical one. “At any time during administration the fiduciary may apply to the court for an allowance upon his or her compensation and upon attorneys’ fees.” Compensation does not have to wait for final settlement, but it does have to be allowed by the court — the fiduciary does not simply take it.
The revisor’s own cross-reference points to K.S.A. 59-1504 for compensation and expenses of an executor and the executor’s attorneys, and anyone pricing a Kansas administration should read the two together rather than treating 59-1717 as the whole rule.
This site does not publish a Kansas percentage, because Kansas does not print one. A number offered as “the Kansas executor fee” is someone’s estimate of what a court would find reasonable, and presenting it as statutory would misdescribe where it came from.
Source: K.S.A. § 59-1717 (compensation and expenses), L. 1939, ch. 180, § 147, read from the enacting state’s own published code on 2026-09-17. Quoted wording is the statute’s; the surrounding explanation is this site’s reading of it and is not legal advice.
Compensation source
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