Legal Opinion
In re Green
New York Court of Appeals
Decided December 22, 1980PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Meyer, J.
To consider whether there is authority to award counsel fees to the petitioner in a conservatorship proceeding brought under article 77 of the Mental Hygiene Law, we granted leave in this case. We conclude that there is not, absent amendment of the statute.
The proceeding was begun by a niece of the proposed conservatee, an 82-year-old woman, who it was claimed was senile and unable to care for herself and whose 86-year-old husband, the petition alleged, was mulcting her of her assets. The proceeding was vigorously defended but after a jury had been empaneled to…
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