CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Attorney Fees
......Appeal of Order
6 Cards On This Topic:
  • Attorney fee orders are appealable.
  • Court may determine conditions under which an attorney fee order may be stayed by posting an undertaking.
  • Pendente lite attorney fee orders are immediately appealable
  • Order reserving jurisdiction over atty. fees is immediately appealable.
  • Failure to appeal a temporary fee order bars future review.
  • Mother's res judicata argument inapplicable where actions not upon "same cause"—F not attempting to relitigate prior fee awards that were final, but challenging new awards.