Whenever any county public administrator shall be appointed as a successor fiduciary of any estate pursuant to the provisions of this act, he shall be allowed only a ratable and proportionate fee for this service, the same to be as provided by the general probate laws of this state and as determined by the judge of probate, to the end that the corpus of no estate shall be unjustifiably diminished by reason of the change of fiduciary as herein provided.
MCL 720.216