Kitchen v. Kitchen

Plaintiffs appeal as of right, challenging the trial court’s order granting defendants’ motion for summary disposition and thereby dismissing all counts in plaintiffs’ supplemental complaint. Plaintiffs also challenge the trial court’s decision awarding defendants their attorney fees and costs in the net amount of $69,719.40, as a sanction for plaintiffs’ filing a frivolous complaint. We affirm.

The facts underlying this litigation are briefly set forth in our earlier decision in Kitchen v Kitchen, 231 Mich App 15, 16-17; 585 NW2d 47 (1998):

Plaintiff William Kitchen and defendant Robert…