2025 Delaware Code
Title 12 - Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations
Chapter 35. TRUSTS
Subchapter V. Compensation of Trustees
§ 3562. Judicial review of trustees' allowances.

(a) The provisions of § 3561(b)(1)c. of this title notwithstanding, the settlor or any current income beneficiary of a trust, or any other person having an equitable interest in a trust from which a fee for trustee compensation is taken or is proposed to be taken pursuant to § 3561(b) of this title, who objects to a schedule or formula filed thereunder as being unreasonable, or who objects to the fee fixed by such schedule or formula as being unreasonable in the particular circumstances, may petition the Court of Chancery for judicial review of the reasonableness of the schedule or formula, or of its application, as the case may be.

(b) Upon the filing of any such petition, the Court of Chancery may appoint a disinterested third person to act as Magistrate to hear and determine the matters raised by such petition and any answer thereto. Proceedings before such Magistrate shall be in conformance with the Rules of the Court of Chancery. The final report of the Magistrate shall be in the form of findings of fact, conclusions of law and recommended decree, and shall be filed with the Register in Chancery. Findings of fact made by the Magistrate, if supported by substantial evidence, shall be conclusive. The Court of Chancery shall thereafter enter its decree determining the matter in issue. Costs of the proceeding, including the reasonable fee of the Magistrate, shall be assessed against the trust in question if the petition is denied in its entirety and shall be assessed against the trustee in its individual capacity if it is granted in whole. In other instances, costs shall be apportioned equitably.