Taplin v. Taplin

NESBITT, Judge.

Appellant-wife brings this interlocutory appeal challenging a postjudgment order concerning attorneys’ fees on the grounds that: (1) the amount of fees awarded was inadequate; and (2) counsel fees were improperly assessed against her portion of an escrow fund rather than against her husband.

The marriage between the parties had been previously dissolved and all property rights settled by written stipulation. One clause thereof, which is in dispute in the present controversy, provides:

The Husband agrees to pay the Wife’s attorneys, Cypen & Nevins, a reasonable fee for services…