Futile and Disturbing Attempt to avoid Discharge

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Futile and Disturbing Attempt to avoid Discharge

Surrogate Margarita Lopez Torres recently ruled in a Kings County Surrogate’s Court matter that an attorney’s refusal to sign a substitution of attorney stipulation was a “futile and disturbing attempt to avoid discharge,” and his motion for a judgment constituting fees owed “woefully insufficient.”

Matter of Estate of Dziubkowski, 2016-1114 (Mar. 5)