Nickerson v. Nickerson

Charles Nickerson [husband] appeals from an adverse final judgment requiring him to pay one-half of his wife’s attorney’s fees in a divorce action. The wife cross-appeals from this same judgment. We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand.

Husband argues that the trial court erred in finding that the wife’s attorney had expended fifty (50) hours on the parties’ divorce. He further claims that the award of fees for services that were “unit billed” by wife’s counsel amounted to an abuse of discretion.1 We agree.

This court has disapproved of “the practice of unreasonable ‘unit billing’…