Cases: Family Law

Family Law/Substantiation Of Fees: Wife’s Counsel’s Unsworn Statements During Argument About Fee Work Services Did Not Support Fee Award

Cases: Family Law, Cases: Substantiation of Reasonableness of Fees

  $10,000 Fee Award to Wife Reversed by Fifth District.      This next case demonstrates that unsworn statements about the nature of fee work will not support a fee award in the family law arena, much less other arenas.      The Fifth District, in Marriage of Monroe, Case No. F061014 (5th Dist. Nov. 14, 2011) […]

Damages/Family Law: “Somewhat Unusual” Case Involving Pro Tem Judge Conflict Cost Transitory Winning Litigant’s Attorney $780,482 In Damages For Attorney’s Fees Expended In Dissolution Proceeding Tainted With The Conflict

Cases: Family Law, Cases: Fees as Damages

  No, Love Lost as Fourth District, Division One Reverses JNOV Disfavorable to Initially Losing Litigant, Who Won a Jury Verdict, Was Then Overturned Post-trial, and Was Vindicated on Appeal.      This one caught our attention because of the appellate court’s rather subdued characterization of it being a “somewhat unusual case.” Wow! This is one

Family Law: Second District, Division Two Upholds Fee Award in Family Court Involving TV Costar of Two and a Half Men

Cases: Celebrities, Cases: Family Law, Cases: Standard of Review

  Who “Won” is Irrelevant Here.      Often, the Court’s retelling of the facts gives us more than an inkling of the ending.      Here, the statement of facts begins: ”Jon and Sarah have both had acting careers, though their career paths diverged widely.  As a costar in the TV show Two and a Half

Family Law/SLAPP: Fourth District, Division 3 Give Us a Two-Fer

Cases: Family Law, Cases: SLAPP

  Family Code Section 271 Sanctioning Authority Justified $3,000 Fee Award Against Ex-Wife.      Acting Justice Bedsworth, on behalf of a 3-0 panel, affirmed a $3,000 award against ex-wife based on Family Code section 271. That section imposes a “minimum level of professionalism and cooperation” to effectuate settlement in the family law area and authorizes

Family Law: Family Law Attorney’s Real Property Lien (FLARPL) Discussed In Recent Unpublished Decision

Cases: Family Law, Cases: Liens for Attorney Fees

  Family Code Section 2033 FLARPL Considered.      Although there was a reversal because an order rendered without an indispensable party is void (with the appellant being an indispensable party able to challenge the void order), the appellate court in Marriage of Ramirez, Case No. D058284 (4th Dist., Div. 1 July 19, 2011) (unpublished) discussed

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