Legal Opinion

In re Cross

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided October 13, 1992PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

— In an accounting proceeding pursuant to SCPA 2110, the appeal is from an order of the Surrogate’s Court, Queens County (Laurino, S.), dated November 27, 1990, which (1) fixed compensation for legal services at $2,500, and (2) directed the repayment and recomputation of executor’s commissions.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

The Surrogate did not improvidently exercise his discretion in fixing the amount of compensation for legal services rendered to the estate (see, Matter of Victory, 156 AD2d 697; Matter of Verplanck, 151 AD2d 767), nor in ordering the…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. In re the Estate of VerplanckAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1989
  2. In re VictoryAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1989

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. In re the Estate of KaplanAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1994

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