In re the Estate of Verplanck
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
In an accounting proceeding pursuant to SCPA 2110, the petitioner appeals from so much of a decree of the Surrogate’s Court, Suffolk County (Signorelli, S.), dated October 7, 1988, as amended April 5, 1989, as fixed compensation for legal services at $8,000.
Ordered that the decree, as amended, is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.
It is by now well settled that the Surrogate bears the ultimate responsibility to decide what constitutes reasonable legal compensation (see, Matter of Von Hofe, 145 AD2d 424; Matter of Ury, 108 AD2d 816; Matter of Schaich, 55 AD2d…
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