Legal Opinion
Tolin v. State, Department of Family Services
Wyoming Supreme Court
Decided January 25, 2013No. S-12-0067PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOLDEN, Justice.
[T1] Attorney Donald L. Tolin, who was court appointed to represent an indigent parent in a parental rights termination action filed by the State of Wyoming, Department of Family Services (DFS), which is a state agency legislatively obligated to pay for the costs of the action including the indigent parent's attorney fee, Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 14-2-318(d)(ii) (LexisNexis 2011), appeals the district court's fifty percent reduction of his requested amount of attorney fees for his representation in this action. As more fully explained below, we hold that the district court did not…
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