In re Mero

In a proceeding to settle an account of the public administrator and set counsel fees pursuant to SCPA 2110, Godosky & Gentile, PC., trial counsel to the Public Administrator of Kings County, appeals, on the ground of inadequacy, from so much of a decree and judgment (one paper) of the Surrogate’s Court, Kings County (Lopez Torres, S.), dated May 19, 2008, as awarded it an attorney’s fee in the principal sum of only $436,598.23.

*1004Ordered that the decree and judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

“[T]he Surrogate bears the ultimate responsibility of deciding what constitutes a…