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Matter of Wolf

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Feb 6, 1989
147 A.D.2d 487 (N.Y. App. Div. 1989)

Opinion

February 6, 1989

Appeal from the Surrogate's Court, Queens County (Laurino, S.).


Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.

Upon his determination that approximately one half of the services performed by the petitioner attorney were executorial in nature, the Surrogate did not improvidently exercise his discretion in directing the petitioner executor to pay one half of the attorney's fees and all of the accountant's fees, from his statutory commission (see, Matter of Hertz, 128 A.D.2d 780, lv denied 69 N.Y.2d 613; Matter of Smith, 91 A.D.2d 789; Matter of Schaich, 55 A.D.2d 914). Nor did the Surrogate improvidently exercise his discretion in fixing the amount of compensation to which the petitioner attorney was entitled (see, Matter of Freeman, 34 N.Y.2d 1, 9; Matter of Ury, 108 A.D.2d 816). Mollen, P.J., Brown, Kunzeman and Kooper, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Matter of Wolf

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Feb 6, 1989
147 A.D.2d 487 (N.Y. App. Div. 1989)
Case details for

Matter of Wolf

Case Details

Full title:In the Matter of the Estate of MORRIS J. WOLF, Deceased. NORMAN BERNSTEIN…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department

Date published: Feb 6, 1989

Citations

147 A.D.2d 487 (N.Y. App. Div. 1989)

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