Order Approving Professional Fees

What This Document Is

This is the two-page proposed order filed as Attachment 1 to Kelly T. Smith's supplemental fee application at docket entry 410 (summarized separately at 410.0), submitted September 20, 2022. It asks the court to grant Smith's $1,914.00 supplemental compensation request in full; no separate entered-order docket number for this specific request appears elsewhere in the case's docket text reviewed for this summary.

Factual Summary

The order recites that Trustee Aaron C. Amore moved to approve the professional fees of Kelly T. Smith, CPA, of Smith, Elliott, Kearns & Company, LLC, that Smith was previously employed by court order, and that no objections had been filed to the fees requested. It states the court reviewed the scope of work performed and the fees and costs charged and found them reasonable and necessary for the Trustee's novation of certain government contracts under the terms of the sale of the debtor's real and personal property — the same June 25, 2021 sale/novation transaction reflected in docket entries 372/374. On that basis, the proposed order adjudges that the supplemental application to approve Smith's professional fees is granted in the amount of $1,914.00. The document carries no judge's signature or entered-date stamp, consistent with its role as a proposed order submitted alongside the application rather than the court's own signed ruling.

Key Facts

• Title: Order Approving Professional Fees of Kelly T. Smith, CPA.
• Proposed order (unsigned, no entry stamp), Attachment 1 to docket entry 410, filed September 20, 2022.
• Amount requested and recommended for approval: $1,914.00, tied to the government-contract novation work described in docket entry 410's underlying application.
• Prepared by Aaron C. Amore, Chapter 7 Trustee, as the filing attorney.

Source Caveats

• This copy carries no judge's signature or docket entry-date stamp; it is the proposed order submitted with the application, not necessarily the court's final signed version. No separate entered order specific to this $1,914.00 request was located among the docket entries reviewed for this summary.