Cases: Homeowner Associations

Homeowners Association: $20,000 Fee Award To Neighbors In Surveillance Camera Dispute Affirmed Based On Breach Of Settlement Agreement Fee Clause

Cases: Homeowner Associations

  Entitlement and Breach Were Established.      Well, whether the Holidays or not, neighborhood disputes in common area developments always produce interesting results–often times with someone bearing the sting of fees as the losing parties or both parties walking away after incurring lots of fees. The former was the case in Toler v. LeFevre, Case

HOA/Prevailing Party: Failure To Award HOA Fees When Plaintiff Dismissed 8 Of 10 Claims Based On Faulty Reasoning Was Abuse Of Discretion

Cases: Homeowner Associations, Cases: Prevailing Party

  HOA, on Remand, Will Get to Renew Request for $252,767 in Defense Fees.      Here is an interesting one where an appellate court reversed the denial of a fee award as an abuse of discretion. The reason: HOA clearly prevailed when plaintiff dismissed 8 of 10 claims (some of them based on a fee-shifting

Homeowner Associations: Substantial $306,464.63 Fee Award To Some Prevailing Defendants And $236,976 Fee Award To HOA Sustained By Appellate Court

Cases: Homeowner Associations

  Actions Involved Enforcement of CC&Rs, With Trial Court Reasonably Awarding a Lodestar Amount After Reductions.      Yet again, we have a homeowner-HOA dispute resulting in substantial fee awards against a homeowner and in favor of two set of defendants. Seltzer v. Eugene Burger Management Assn., Case No. A128552 (1st Dist., Div. 3 Oct. 19,

Homeowner Associations: Attorney’s Fees Clauses In Unrecorded CC&R Enforcement Committee Manuals Did Not Create Enforceable Fee Clauses In The Absence Of Amending The CC&Rs

Cases: Estoppel, Cases: Homeowner Associations

Third District Issues Important Decision in the CC&R Enforcement Area.      The Third District in Ferwerda v. Bordon, Case No. C062389 (3d Dist. Mar. 25, 2011) (certified for partial publication on the fee issue) has decided an important case with respect to enforcing attorney’s fees clauses contained in unrecorded CC&R enforcement documents and manuals. In

Homeowner Associations/Prevailing Party: HOA Was Not Liable For Fees And Costs When It Obtained Injunctive Relief Before Dismissing Its Complaint Voluntarily

Cases: Homeowner Associations, Cases: Prevailing Party

  Defendant Not Entitled to Fees Where Contractually-Based Complaint Voluntarily Dismissed And Not Entitled to Costs Under Discretionary Prevailing Party Provision.      Homeowner association (HOA)/homeowner disputes have resulted in us doing a fair amount of posts under our category “Homeowner Associations.” Here is one more to add to the list, with a homeowner seeking $64,572.84

Allocation/Appealability/Homeowner Associations/Reasonableness Of Fees: $190,065 Fee Award Affirmed in “Acrid Dispute Between Neighbors” Under CC&Rs

Cases: Allocation, Cases: Appealability, Cases: Homeowner Associations, Cases: Reasonableness of Fees

Trial Court’s Significant Reductions in Requested Fees Obviated Need to Apportion With Mathematical Precision.      The next case illustrates a result we see often in appellate decisions when apportionment of fees is necessary as between compensable and noncompensable claims: a lower court’s reduction of fee requests obviates the need to perform a CPA-like audit of

Homeowners Associations: Civil Code Section 1354 Did Not Allow Third Party To Recoup Fees From Losing Homeowner

Cases: Homeowner Associations

Section 1354 Only Applies in Homeowner-Homeowner Association Disputes.      The scope of Civil Code section 1354, which permits homeowner associations and homeowners to recover attorney’s fees in actions to enforce an HOA’s governing documents, was at issue in the next case out of our local Santa Ana appellate court.      In Chen v. Association Lien

Intervenors: Prevailing Intervenor Neighbor In Homeowner/HOA Lawsuit Over Permit Denial Properly Awarded Attorney’s Fees Of $49,650

Cases: Homeowner Associations, Cases: Intervenors

Second District, Division 6 Finds Intervenor Was In Same Position As Parties to the Lawsuit for Fee Shifting Purposes.      Here is a case involving an interven0r for our category “Intervenors”–a category that we have not posted on for some time. The case is Larson v. Las Posas Hills Homeowners Assn., Case No. B219066 (2d

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