IN RE ESTATE AND GUARDIANSHIP OF VERMEERSCH

No. 1 CA-CIV 1463.

15 Ariz. App. 315 (1971)

488 P.2d 671

In the Matter of the ESTATE AND GUARDIANSHIP OF Jules L. VERMEERSCH, Incompetent. The VALLEY NATIONAL BANK OF ARIZONA, Guardian, Appellant, v. Rosalie M. LEWIN, Petitioner, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Arizona, Division 1, Department B.

September 20, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Moore, Romley, Kaplan, Robbins & Green by Elias M. Romley and R.G. Langmade, Phoenix, for appellant.

Cunningham, Goodson, Tiffany & Weltsch, Ltd. by John F. Goodson, and O'Connor, Cavanagh, Anderson, Westover, Killingsworth & Beshears by Harry J. Cavanagh, Phoenix, for appellee.


HAIRE, Judge.

The question raised on this appeal is whether a probate court may properly allow reimbursement to the guardian for attorney's fees and related expenses, to be paid out of the estate of an incompetent, for services rendered by the guardian's attorneys in the investigating, preparing and presenting of a petition for guardianship and in the trial resulting from a contest thereof.

On January 12, 1970, the appellee, Rosalie M. Lewin, filed a petition...

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