Opinion
May 20, 1997
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Bronx County (Bertram Katz, J.).
The Judicial Hearing Officer properly took into account the numerous factors pertinent to the fixing of outgoing counsel fees in quantum meruit ( see, Matter of Freeman, 34 N.Y.2d 1, 9), and appellants' arguments to the contrary represent nothing more than their own self-serving view of the evidence, which gives this Court no reason to disturb the factual determinations ( see, Antzakas v. Farmland Dairies, 202 A.D.2d 324). Outgoing counsel was properly granted an immediate hearing to fix the quantum meruit amount ( see, Matter of Schwartz, r 235 A.D.2d 482), and it was within the motion court's discretion to determine that payment to outgoing counsel be deferred until the conclusion of the action, rather than be made immediately ( see, Hom v. Hom, 210 A.D.2d 296, 298). We have considered the parties' remaining contentions for affirmative relief and find them to be without merit.
Concur — Murphy, P.J., Wallach, Tom and Mazzarelli, JJ.