Legal Opinion
In re the Estate of Bitzer
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided October 17, 1994PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—In a proceeding for the judicial settlement of an account of a decedent’s estate, the executor appeals from so much of a decree of the Surrogate’s Court, Suffolk County (Signorelli, J.), dated March 1, 1993, as awarded the executor’s law firm only $25,000 in attorneys’ fees and $203.15 in disbursements, which amounts were less than requested.
Ordered that the decree is modified, as a matter of discretion, by deleting the provision thereof awarding $25,000 as attorneys’ fees and substituting therefor a provision awarding $70,506.25 as attorneys’ fees; as so modified, the decree is affirmed…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- In re the Estate of BobeckAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1993
- In re the Estate of PassuelloAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1992
- In re the Estate of KinzlerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1993
- In re EpsteinAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1990
- In re LevyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1978
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3Cited by5 opinions
- In re BarichAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2012
- In re SucheronAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2012
- In re the Estate of ScottAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1996
- In re LefflerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1995
- In re the Estate of LaracyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2004