Smith-Adam v. Komer

KLEIN, Judge.

A final judgment of dissolution of marriage was entered in this case in November 1993, ordering a sale of the marital home and providing for payment of the parties’ attorneys’ fees out of the proceeds. Appellant Smith-Adam had represented the husband earlier in the proceedings, but had withdrawn before entry of the final judgment. She had obtained a prior judgment requiring the husband to pay her attorney’s fees.

Some nineteen months after the dissolution judgment wife’s counsel, who was designated to disburse the funds from the sale of the marital home, moved the court to clarify…