I do probably a half dozen probates per year, and it is rare that an executor charges for it.
One exception that you may find interesting: When folks go to a nursing home, the government pays for it under Medicaid, if the folks can't pay. A lien accrues against their real estate, but nothing is done about the lien until both of the couple dies.
As you can imagine, the lien can amount to far more than the value of the property. So when the folks die, no one has any incentive to do a probate. So the guvment makes the heirs an offer: find an attorney to do the probate, and sell the house. Guvment will pay for the lawyer, pay the executor for his services, and split up to 10% of the sale price among the heirs.
I've done 2 or 3 of these. Talked to the guvment person on the first one, and she said its far cheaper (and less risky) to farm out the probate and give away part of the value of the property than for the guvment to do it themselves.
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