Cite 227 Wis.2d 531, 597 N.W.2d 744 (WI Ct. App. 1999) Summary Although the claim was not frivolous when it was brought, a party’s responsibility for the factual basis of a claim is on-going. Once a party knows or should have known that a claim is not supported by fact or law, it must dismiss…
Statement that wife’s award under property division is sufficient to pay attorney fees is tantamount to determination that she did not have a need for a contribution.
Trial court can not grant attorney fees nunc pro tunc after appeal.
Court properly exercised its discretion by noting H’s cash flow and itemized statement of wife’s attorney.
Contribution award based upon depletion of estate was really designed to make estate whole, so it does not require usual findings associated with fee contribution.
Attorney fees on appeal were properly granted by trial court – even though wife had remarried and her new spouse has income.
Because wife waived claim to attorney fees, her fee arrangement is irrelevant.
Court cannot determine and enter a judgment for attorney fees between an attorney and client whom the attorney continues to represent in the divorce action.
Order that contemnor pay attorney fees for other party in contempt proceeding affirmed.
Ordering husband to contribute to wife’s attorney fees and to pay GAL and GAL’s expert affirmed where court found the length of the trial and its complexity were primarily the result of husband’s insistence on litigating custody and related issues despite substantial evidence contrary to his position.