Tresser v. Tresser

THREADGILL, Acting Chief Judge.

In this dissolution of marriage action, the wife appeals a final order that requires the husband to pay only twenty-five percent of her attorney’s fees and costs. The wife argues that the trial court abused its discretion by making a partial award of attorney’s fees and costs, given the substantial disparity in the parties’ incomes. We reverse.

The parties, both physicians in their late thirties, were married in April 1989. A petition for dissolution of marriage was filed in November 1995. The parties have three young children. The final judgment of dissolution…