Bowen & Smoot v. Plumlee

Appellants, Bowen & Smoot and James T. McLaren, appeal the trial judge’s award of attorney’s fees to respondents, Glenn H. Plumlee, III, James H. Plumlee, and Mark Plumlee. We affirm.

This Court previously reversed the trial court’s denial of the respondent’s Rule 12(b)(6), SCRCP, motion filed in the appellants’ suit against the respondents, their client’s children, as third-party beneficiaries of child support, for attorneys’ fees incurred as a result of the parents’ divorce. See Bowen & Smoot v. Plumlee, 301 S.C. 262, 391 S.E. (2d) 558 (1990). We recognized that the denial of a Rule 12(b)(6)…