In re the Estate of Massey

In an administration proceeding in which the Public Administrator petitioned to judicially settle the account, nonparty Russo, Fox & Karl appeals from so much of an order of the Surrogate’s Court, Nassau County (Riordan, S.), dated May 29, 2009, as, upon granting that branch of the petition which was to fix and determine the attorney’s fee pertaining to legal services it provided to the former administrator of the estate of Angela Massey, awarded it the sum of only $5,000, and directed it to refund all sums paid in excess of that amount to the estate.

Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar…