175 Ill. App. 3d 805 - Gitlin v. Hartmann’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 63 Ill. 2d 128 - First Capitol Mortgage Corp. v. Talandis Construction Corp. · 78 Ill. 2d 217 - Rhoades v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co. · 150 Ill. App. 3d 21 - Herbster v. North American Co. for Life & Health Insurance · 150 Ill. App. 3d 890 - In Re Marriage of Baltzer · 95 Ill. App. 3d 220 - In Re Marriage of Reczek
Most-quoted passages
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““[Retention agreements stating hourly rates are commonplace in divorce cases, and such agreements have never precluded the courts of this State from reducing attorney fees where a court deems such fees were not reasonable for the services rendered or necessary.” Gitlin, 175 Ill. App. 3d at 809 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in a domestic relations proceeding, the best indicator of the propriety of an attorney's fees is the court in which the proceeding was heard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“would substantially weaken the apparent purposes of section 508 of the Dissolution Act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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