Current Status BillNumber: 2539 Ratification Number: 593 Act Number: 492 Introducing Body: House Subject: Compensation of appraisers of decedents' estatesView additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.
(A492, R593, S2539)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 21-15-400, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE COMPENSATION OF APPRAISERS OF DECEDENTS' ESTATES, SO AS TO REVISE SUCH COMPENSATION.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
Fee
SECTION 1. Section 21-15-400 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
Section 21-15-400. Upon the settlement of their accounts by executors and administrators the judge of probate shall allow each appraiser appointed by the court a reasonable daily fee for each day spent on appraising the property of the estate and also mileage at the same rate that members of state boards, commissions, and committees receive for each mile actually traveled in going to and from the place where the property ordered to be appraised is situated. In determining the reasonableness of the fee to each appraiser the judge of probate shall consider the value of the estate, the actual time consumed by the appraisers in the performance of their duties, and other such circumstances and conditions surrounding the appraisal as the judge deems appropriate."
Time effective
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon approval by the Governor.
Approved the 27th day of June, 1984,