Matter of Moriarty

Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (Laura Visitacion-Lewis, J), entered on or about April 2, 2013, which, to the extent appealed from, awarded nonparty counsel Jeanette Westphal $2,736 of the requested amount of $25,869 in legal fees in connection with Westphal’s representation of the alleged incapacitated person, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, to the extent of remanding the matter to Supreme Court for reconsideration before another justice.

Supreme Court has broad discretion in determining the reasonable amount of attorneys’ fees to be awarded in…