Ordered that the decree is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs payable by the nonparty appellant.
The Surrogate's Court bears the ultimate responsibility for deciding what constitutes a reasonable attorney's fee, and the evaluation of what constitutes a reasonable attorney's fee is a matter within the sound discretion of the court (see Matter of Katz,
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