California Trust, Estate & Probate LitigationPardon Our Probate Fees: Written Fee Agreement Not Required for Payment of Probate Attorneys’ Fees By Keith A. Davidson January 24, 2013 Lawyers have rules that we must follow (no, seriously we do), and one of them is that any engagement where we estimate the fees to the client will exceed $1,000 must be documented by a written fee agreement—sometimes called retainer…