Parties’ Spending on Fees During the Course Supported the Award.
Marriage of Grimm, Case No. B247643 (2d Dist., Div. 7 May 12, 2014) (unpublished) is a case where an ex-husband, a struggling hospital engineer, was ordered to pay temporary needs-based attorney’s fees to his ex-wife, who had an English masters and no permanent job. Husband’s appeal did not overturn the $5,000 in temporary needs-based fees especially given that he had spent $10,000 on his own attorney and the actual award was only ½ of the amount estimated by the first attorney representing wife as being a reasonable expense for the dissolution.