When an estate is asset-poor and claim-heavy, a personal representative often faces an uncomfortable choice: fight every claim to the last dollar, or cut a deal that protects what little value remains.
The Arizona Court of Appeals’ 2026 decision in Gonzalez v. Fiduciary Solutions is a clean illustration of how much room Arizona law gives a personal representative to make that call, and how hard it is for an unhappy heir to unwind a settlement on appeal. Division One affirmed the probate court’s approval of a settlement that handed the estate’s only meaningful asset to one heir, over the strenuous