Snow v. Mikenas

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• probate court was entitled to inquire sua sponte into the reasonableness of contingent fee agreements between legatees or heirs and their attorneys
• a judge is authorized to question the reasonableness of a contingency fee on his own motion where the attorney will collect a fee from funds to be distributed through him by court order
• party claiming attorneys fees bears “both the burden of going forward with evidence and the burden of persuasion on the issue of the reasonableness of attorneys fees”
• party claiming attorneys fees bears “both the burden of going forward with evidence and the burden of persuasion on the issue of the reasonableness of attorneys fees”
• \(A) judge is authorized to raise the question of the reasonableness of a contingent fee arrangement on his own motion where ... the attorney intends to collect his fee from funds to be distributed through him by court order\
• “[A] judge is authorized tq raise the question of the reasonableness of a contingent fee arrangement on his own motion where . . . the attorney intends to collect his fee from funds to be distributed through him by court order”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).