In re the Estate of Mintz

In a probate proceeding in which the successor trustee of three inter vivos trusts petitioned to judicially settle the accounts of those trusts, Louis R. Rosenthal, the attorney for the successor trustee, appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of a decree of the Surrogate’s Court, Kings County (Lopez Torres, S.), dated September 29, 2008, as, upon a decision of the same court dated July 14, 2008, awarded him an attorney’s fee in the principal sum of only $5,000.

Ordered that the decree is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.

Contrary to the appellant’s…