Deines v. Deines

This case involves the propriety of an award to the wife of an attorney's fee in postdivorce proceedings.

The parties were divorced by a judgment of August 3, 1981. Among other matters, that decree approved an agreement of the parties whereby the wife was granted alimony, custody of their daughter who was five years old at that time, and child support of $170 biweekly.

In March 1982 the husband petitioned for the child's custody. He further sought to have the court correct a mutual mistake of the parties in regard to child support payments, alleging that the amount should have been established…