Additional Allowances for Extraordinary Services of

Personal Representatives. Such further allowances, over and above those provided by Section 2803 of this Title, may be made as the Superior Court may deem just and reasonable for any extraordinary services performed by the personal representative; provided, that no such further allowance shall be made when the decedent, by his will, makes other provision for the com- pensation of the executor named therein, unless such executor renounces all claim thereto as provided in Section 2801 of this Title. As used in this Section, Aextraordinary services@ may include, but is not limited to, sales or mortgages of real or personal property; contested or litigated claims against the estate; the adjustment and payment of extensive or compli- cated estate or inheritance taxes; litigation in regard to the property of the estate; the carrying on of the decedent's business pursuant to an order of the Superior Court; and such other litigation or special services as may be necessary for the personal representative to prosecute, defend or perform. SOURCE: Probate Code of Guam (1970), § 902; Guam Law Revision Commission. COMMENT: The only substantive change from § 902 of the Probate Code of Guam (1970) is the addition of the language following the semicolon in the first sentence. The Commission has added this language to clarify the point that if the decedent has made provision by will for the compensation of the executor named therein, then the compensation provided for in the will is the sum total of such executor's compensation -- unless, of course, the executor named in the will properly renounces his claim for compensation under the will as provided for in proposed § 2801, supra.