Legal Opinion
Sagonowsky v. Kekoa
California Court of Appeal
Decided December 21, 2016No. A142866, A143234PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
JONES, P. J.
In the latest chapter of this lengthy and acrimonious marital dissolution—which the trial court dubbed a “litigation war”—the court partially granted Curtis Kekoa Jr.’s motion for Family Code section 271 1 sanctions (section 271 motion). The court sanctioned Christina M. Sagonowsky $767,781.23, which included (1) $500,000 for her “relentless and culpable conduct” in “driving] up the cost of the litigation” and “purposefully frustrat[ing] the final settlement of’ the case; (2) $180,000 for causing a reduction in the sale price of real property awarded to Kekoa in the…
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