Guardian Ad Litem Program v. Palacios

DAUKSCH, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order requiring appellant to pay appellee attorney fees for *566representation of certain children in the guardian ad litem program.

Because no statutory or contractual basis exists for the payment of fees for lawyers representing children in the program and, more particularly, for this lawyer’s representation, we must reverse the order awarding fees.

Appellee asserts that the order appointing him as attorney for the children states that “counsel be compensated from public funds” and that he relied upon that order as the basis for his claim for fees. In…