Valley National Bank v. Lewin

HAIRE, Judge.

The question raised on this appeal is whether a probate court may properly allow reimbursement to the guardian for attorney’s fees and related expenses, to be paid out of the estate of an incompetent, for services rendered by the guardian’s attorneys in the investigating, preparing and presenting of a petition for guardianship and in the trial resulting from a contest thereof.

On January 12, 1970, the appellee, Rosalie M. Lewin, filed a petition in the superior court requesting that she be appointed guardian of the person of her father, Jules L. Vermeersch, and that she along with…