2005 Arizona Revised Statutes - Revised Statutes §14-5414  Compensation and expenses

A. If not otherwise compensated for services rendered, any investigator, accountant, lawyer, physician, conservator or special conservator appointed in a protective proceeding is entitled to reasonable compensation from the estate. If the court pays for any of these services it may charge the estate for reasonable compensation. The clerk shall deposit monies it collects in the probate fund pursuant to section 14-5433.

B. Compensation payable to the department of veterans' services, when acting as a conservator of the estate of a veteran or a veteran's surviving spouse or minor child or the incapacitated spouse of a protected veteran, shall not be more than five per cent of the amount of monies received during the period covered by the conservatorship. A copy of the petition and notice of hearing shall be given to the proper officer of the veterans administration in the manner provided in the case of any hearing on a guardian's account or any other pleading. No commission or compensation shall be allowed on the monies or other assets received from a prior conservator nor upon the amount received from liquidation of loans or other investments.