Legal Opinion
Williams v. Cooper
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided January 17, 2006No. S05A1949PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BENHAM, Justice.
This appeal concerns attorney fees assessed against Rita Williams under OCGA§ 9-15-14 (b) based on her conduct as counsel for a party in a domestic relations case. In a motion for contempt based on the failure of Williams’s client, Mr. Cooper, to pay support, Ms. Cooper sought attorney fees incurred “as a result of Mr. Cooper’s willful failure and refusal to comply with” a support order, and prayed she ‘be awarded costs and expenses of litigation, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, that she incurred as a result of bringing this Motion for Contempt.” The trial court ruled in…
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