Legal Opinion
In re Lafferty
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided September 5, 2002PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The Surrogate was not required to rubber stamp the settlement agreement between petitioner Katten Muchin Zavis, the Attorney General and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (the sole residuary beneficiary of the estate) pursuant to which the firm would receive $9.6 million of the $15.3 million in fees and disbursements originally sought, even though the agree*470ment was the product of good faith negotiations. Rather, the Surrogate properly inquired into the reasonableness of those fees and disbursements, in light of its observations of the firm’s overstaffing and performance of work duplicative…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- In re Accounting of Lincoln Rochester Trust Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1974
- In re the Estate of PottsAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1925
- MTR. OF STORTECKY v. MazzoneNew York Court of Appeals · 1995
- In Re Estate of PottsNew York Court of Appeals · 1925
- In re the Estate of VerplanckAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1989
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3Cited by4 opinions
- State v. Philip Morris Inc.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2003
- In re KennyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2004
- In re the Estate of HofmannAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2007
- In re the Estate of McNeilAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2010