In re Grace PP.

Mikoll, J. P.

Appeal from an order of the County Court of Saratoga County (Scarano, Jr., J.), entered June 25, 1996, which, in a proceeding pursuant to Mental Hygiene Law article 81, directed that respondent pay counsel fees to assigned counsel for Grace PP. and counsel for petitioner.

At issue in this appeal is the propriety of County Court’s order directing respondent, as attorney-in-fact for Grace PP., an alleged incapacitated person (hereinafter the AIP), to pay legal fees to counsel for the AIP and to counsel for petitioner.

Petitioner is a licénsed social worker at Saratoga Hospital in…