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MATTER OF HOFMANN

188 Misc.2d 841 (2001)

729 N.Y.S.2d 821

In the Matter of the Estate of RENATE HOFMANN, Deceased.

Surrogate's Court, New York County.

February 2, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chadbourne & Parke, L. L. P., New York City (Charles F. Gibbs and Marjorie L. Cohen of counsel), for Bob G. Roberts and another, preliminary executors movants.

Sullivan & Cromwell, New York City (Theodore O. Rogers, Jr., Basil P. Zirinis, III, and Keith McKenna of counsel), for United States Trust Company of New York, movant.

Carter, Ledyard & Milburn, New York City (Jack Kaplan of counsel), movant pro se, and for Richard B. Covey, movant.

Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, New York City (Mark H. Alcott, Maria K. Keane and Julia Tarver of counsel), and Seaman & Ashley, New York City, for Chase Manhattan Bank and another, executors respondents.

OPINION OF THE COURT

EVE PREMINGER, S.

This proceeding is an application to fix attorneys' fees for the preliminary executors of decedent's estate. Before the Court are a motion to dismiss the answer of the executors who ultimately qualified as permanent fiduciaries, and a motion to seal the answer and to seal the sealing motion. For the reasons set forth below, all of the motions are denied.

The decedent, Renate Hofmann, was the widow of the internationally...

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