N.Y. Debtor & Creditor Law § 276-a: Attorney's fees in action or special proceeding under this article to avoid a transfer or obligation

§ 276-a. Attorney's fees in action or special proceeding under this

article to avoid a transfer or obligation. In an action or special

proceeding under this article in which a judgment creditor who has been

awarded by court order or agreement or has waived attorney's fees

available to prevailing parties by the terms of the statute under which

the creditor's underlying claim arose, or representative asserting the

rights of such judgment creditor, recovers judgment avoiding any

transfer or obligation, the justice or surrogate presiding at the trial

shall fix the reasonable attorney's fees of the creditor, or creditor

representative, incurred in such action or special proceeding under this

article as an additional amount required to satisfy the creditor's

claim, and the creditor, or creditor representative, shall have judgment

therefor against the debtor and, subject to the defenses and protections

in section two hundred seventy-seven of this article, against any

transferee (or person for whose benefit the transfer was made) against

whom relief is ordered, in addition to the other relief granted by the

judgment. The fee so fixed shall be without regard, or prejudice, to any

agreement, express or implied, between the creditor, or the creditor

representative, and his or her attorney with respect to the compensation

of such attorney.