New Mexico personal representative compensation

New Mexico executor fees

A personal representative is entitled to reasonable compensation, not a percentage schedule. If a will provides compensation and no contract with the decedent controls, the representative may renounce the will provision before qualifying and take reasonable compensation, or renounce all or part of the fee.

Sources reviewed August 9, 2026. Latest primary-source re-fetch October 3, 2026.

How New Mexico sets executor compensation

New Mexico sets no percentage schedule, so no fee can be computed from the estate value. The Probate Court (informal) / District Court (formal) decides what is reasonable for the work actually done; the governing text is quoted in the source below.

Compensation source

New Mexico record: 6/6 verified, 18 matched checks, latest source re-fetch October 3, 2026. Source record · method · report a correction