Tagliabue v. Tagliabue

KRAFTE, J. J. D. R. C. (temporarily assigned).

In the ever-burgeoning field of matrimonial litigation it is not at all uncommon that the party’s attorney who files the com*548plaint is not the attorney on the scene at the final judgment. As a matter of experience, it is not so rare that three, four or more attorneys will represent one party in a substantial case. If that party is the wife, the probabilities are that both attorneys have contracted their right — and, perhaps, obligation, — to seek all or part of their counsel fees from the husband. A situation arises, therefore, where at the…