In Re Marriage of Siller
California Court of Appeal
[Opinion certified for partial publication.*]
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
SIMS, J.
Civil Code section 4370 1 allows a trial court in a marital dissolution proceeding to award pendente lite attorneys’ fees to a spouse, payable by unrelated third parties who have been brought into the dissolution action by joinder. (Statutory references are to the Civil Code unless otherwise indicated.) In this case, we hold the statute was constitutionally applied when unrelated third parties were ordered to pay a wife pendente lite attorneys fees to compensate her attorneys for their successful opposition to various motions and writ petitions filed by third parties.
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