State ex rel. Paine v. Paine

TILLMAN PEARSON, Judge.

Rene Evans Paine, Jr., who is the appellant here, was the relator in a habeas corpus proceeding in the circuit court. He *709appeals an order entered subsequent to the discharge of the writ which assessed attorney’s fees against him for the services of his former wife’s attorney in the habeas corpus action. We reverse.

The appellant and the appellee were divorced in 1959. By the decree of divorce the appellee was awarded custody of the two minor children of the marriage. Thereafter there ensued a succession of contests over the children in which the former husband sought to…