IN THE MATTER OF PRESS


30 A.D.3d 154 (2006)

816 N.Y.S.2d 441

In the Matter of the Estate of BETH PRESS, Also Known as BETH SIEGEL, Deceased. ROBERT J. BURTON, Appellant; TIMOTHY L. THOMPSON, as Executor, Respondent.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

June 1, 2006.


In 1998, claimant asserted two objections to the executor's accounting for legal work he had performed years earlier in connection with the decedent's divorce. Specifically, claimant alleged that the decedent, who died in January 1996, owed him $31,337.60 in legal fees which, pursuant to a judgment rendered in June 1985, her husband had been ordered to pay claimant on her behalf. Claimant also asserted a quantum meruit claim in excess of $64,000 for work he allegedly performed...

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