Where petitioner had sufficient resources for which to pay her attorney and there was no indication that such payment would strip the petitioner of her means of support or undermine her financial stability, the trial court did not abuse its discretion by requiring each party to pay its own attorney’s fees.
The trial court did not [...]
Trial court did not abuse its discretion in determining that reasonable fees for representation in post-dissolution proceedings were $445 where petitioner admitted that the nature of the controversy was relatively simple, that the case presented no novel or difficult question, and that there was no important family law issue involved.
Considering the respective financial resources of [...]
It was not an abuse of discretion to not require the husband to contribute to the wife’s attorney fees as the wife failed to show an inability to pay her own attorney fees.
Trial court did not abuse its discretion in declining to award the wife payment for her attorney fees, despite allegations that the vast [...]
Just who is the better custodial parent? Most parents would think that he or she is clearly the better custodial parent. But who does the court consider to be the best? Well, that all depends upon the interest of the child and not the interest of the parents. But just what is the interest of [...]
Although a complete termination of alimony to the plaintiff was an abuse of the trial court’s discretion, the continued payment of $16,000 a year to a woman of the plaintiff’s means, after her brief marriage to the defendant, was not justified. Borowitz v. Borowitz
The trial court did not err in its judgment that plaintiff, by [...]
