Appeal Of $72,476.87 Sanctions Award Against Ex-Husband Deemed Frivolous. Just to give you a sense of the dollar amounts of appellate sanctions imposed in one Division of the Second District, the Ventura Court of Appeal, in Marriage of Walther, Case No. B340131 (2d Dist., Div. 6 May 20, 2026) (unpublished), found ex-husband’s appeal of a $72,476.87 sanctions order to be frivolous. It found the respondent ex-wife’s request for $12,590.20 in sanctions as being reasonable for work in opposing the appeal, also ordering that ex-husband reimburse the court clerk $8,500 for the time spent by the court in working up the appeal to disposition.