Bloom v. Bloom

LUCAS, Judge.

Marshall Bloom, a beneficiary and former personal representative of the late Leon Bloom’s estate, challenges the circuit court’s order denying his motion to recover his attorney’s fees. The circuit court correctly construed the limits of our mandate from an earlier appeal and rejected Marshall’s 1 “common fund rule” argument for recovery of his fees but then erroneously concluded that his fee motion asserted no statutory basis for the court to consider. In fact, it did. Thus, while we can affirm most of the determinations the circuit court has thus far made, we must reverse the…