Does an estate have to pay the costs of an application?
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
The following excerpt is from Greeley Estate v Greeley, 2016 NLCA 26 (CanLII):
Where there is “an issue of substance arising under the will that warranted the court application”, courts have ordered that the estate should pay the costs of the application: see e.g. Elton Estate v. Elton, 2010 NLCA 2, 292 Nfld. & P.E.I.R. 237.
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