CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Attorney Fees
......Auth. Favoring Paying Spouse
.........Attorney's Efforts Not Productive
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Partial award of fees affirmed, despite father's ability to pay, when mother's attorney unsuccessfully pursued irrelevant issue.

Length and extent of litigation such that court properly ordered both parties to pay own fees. (Each also had substantial property.)

Court may disregard unproductive time.

Order that W pay $59,000 of own fees affirmed; reasonable value of services found to be $10,000 and W had already received $19,000.