Deardoff v. Deardoff

GOSHORN, Judge.

The question in this case is whether it was error for the trial court to deny the wife’s motion for temporary attorney’s fees and suit money without considering her needs and her husband’s ability to provide for those needs. We hold that it was error, and reverse.

The parties entered into a property settlement agreement which provided, in part, that each party would bear his or her own attorney’s fees and costs until entry of the final judgment of dissolution. In his amended petition for dissolution, the husband sought to have the agreement incorporated into the final judgment.…