In Re the Marriage of Kopp

Respondent-husband appeals from the trial court’s decree dissolving the parties’ marriage, asserting: (1) since he is indigent within the meaning of section 598.12, The Code 1979, the trial court should have ordered the county and not him to pay the $450 fee for the minor child’s guardian ad litem and (2) the trial court abused its discretion in ordering respondent to pay $500 of his wife’s attorney fees. We find appellant is indigent as the term is used in section 598.12, The Code 1979.

Appellee-wife, Margie Jennesse Kopp, and appellant-husband, Daniel Ross Kopp, were granted a decree of…