Navistar International Corp. v. Valles

OPINION

WOODARD, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding a $10,000.00 guardian ad litem fee to Attorney H. Tati Santiesteban. Plaintiff, pursuant to a settlement agreement for the wrongful death of her husband, received $160,000.00 and her five minor children received a total of $50,000.00. In addition, four adult children received $2,500.00 each. One of the defendants, Border Machinery, Inc., was to pay twenty-nine percent of the $10,000.00; Appellant/defendant Navistar International Corporation was to pay seventy-one percent. Appellant Navistar contends the trial court abused its…