Stone v. Stone

Weltner, Justice.

The jury verdict in this divorce action provided that the parties would pay their own court costs and attorney fees. The trial court adopted the verdict, but awarded $8,000 to the wife as attorney fees.

The issue of attorney fees is reserved to the trial judge under OCGA § 19-6-2, and the court correctly invalidated that aspect of the verdict. The issue then becomes whether or not the verdict may stand in the light of this alteration.

Decided November 23, 1988. Dubberly & McGovern, Joseph D. McGovern, M. Francis Stubbs, for appellant. Reinhardt & Whitley, Robert C. Wilmot, for…