In re the Estate of McCann
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—In a proceeding to fix attorneys fees pursuant to SCPA 2110, the appeal is from an order of the Surrogate’s Court, Suffolk County (Prudenti, S.), dated September 27, 1995, which fixed the legal fees of the attorneys for the estate in an amount less than requested.
*406Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs payable by the appellants personally.
It is well settled that the Surrogate "bears the ultimate responsibility to decide what constitutes reasonable legal compensation” in estate matters (Matter of Verplanck, 151 AD2d 767). This is so regardless of whether there was an agreement by the…
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