State ex rel. Holterman v. Patterson

KATHIANNE KNAUP CRANE, Presiding Judge.

Relator, Tressa Holterman, seeks a writ of prohibition prohibiting respondent, the Honorable Timothy J. Patterson, from enforcing his order of June 22, 2000, which ordered relator to pay one third of a $1,000.00 guardian ad litem fee. Relator argues that she was not required to pay this fee under Section 514.040.3 RSMo (Cum.Supp.1999) because she is represented in the civil action by a legal services organization which has filed with the clerk of the Twenty-third Judicial Circuit a certificate of her inability to pay cost, fees, and expenses. This court…