Ch. 596                                    1997 LAWS OF MARYLAND

Article - Estates and Trusts

2-206.

(a)    The registers of wills are entitled to charge and collect for the performance of
their duties the fees in this section.

(b)    (1) For taking probate of wills and furnishing 2 certified copies of the will
and codicils, granting letters of administration and furnishing 12 certificates of letters,
issuing warrants to appraise, entering on estate docket, filing elections of surviving
spouses to take intestate shares, filing renunciations and disclaimers, filing and recording
wills, bonds, inventories, accounts of sale, releases, administration accounts, petitions and
orders, and other papers filed in the administration of decedents' estates not otherwise
specified in subsections (c) through (1) of this section, the probate fees under paragraph
(2) of this subsection.

(2) Probate fees shall be assessed on the value of the probate estate at the
following rates:

following rates:	If the Value of the Probate
	Estate Is	But Less	The Fee
	At Least	Than	Is
(i)	—	$ 10,000	$ 50
(ii)	$ 10,000	$ 20,000	$ 100
(iii)	$ 20,000	$ 50,000	$ 150
(iv)	$ 50,000	$ 75,000	$ 200
(v)	$ 75,000	$ 100,000	$ 300
(vi)	$ 100,000	$ 250,000	$ 400
(vii)	$ 250,000	$ 500,000	$ 500
(viii)	$ 500,000	$ 750,000	$ 750
(ix)	$ 750,000	$1,000,000	$1,000
(x)	$1,000,000	$2,000,000	$1,500
(xi)	$2,000,000	$5,000,000	$2,500 $2,500 plus .02% of excess over
(xii)	$5,000,000	—	$5,000,000

(3) [For] EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH (4) OF THIS
SUBSECTION, FOR purposes of determinations under paragraph (2) of this subsection,
the value of a probate estate is the amount, as reflected in the administration accounts
filed in the proceedings, that equals:

(i) The sum of:

1.       The value of all inventories filed in the proceedings;

2.       All principal and income receipts; and

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