Reed v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
1999
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8 state decisions
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“[WJhether to allow a set-off in a particular case is usually left to the discretion of the trial judge.” Id. (internal quotation omitted). In this case, the dissolution judgment obligated Husband to pay Wife $3,000 per month in maintenance. Based upon the April 22, 2016 Judgment and Order, Wife owed Husband $9,000 in attorney’s fees, costs,-and expenses. "The set-off in this case clearly involves obligations that are mutual and subsisting between the same parties,' and due in the same capacity or right.” Id. at 751 (internal quotation omitted). Accordingly, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in offsetting the awards. . Husband suggests that the collateral litigation exception to the American Rule applies in this case. We disagree, "[F]or a party to recover attorney fees under the collateral litigation exception to the ‘American Rule,’ that party must have incurred the fees as a result of suing, or being sued by, an outside third party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Labarca v. Labarca“The compensation of an attorney or counselor for his services is governed by agreement, express or implied, which is not restrained by law. From the commencement of an action or the service of an answer containing a counterclaim, the attorney who appears for a party has a lien upon his client’s cause of action or counterclaim, which attaches to a verdict, report, decision or judgment in his client’s favor, and the proceeds thereof in whosesoever hands they may come; and cannot be affected by any settlement between the parties before or after judgment.”
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