Court Opinion

ID: 9623852
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 06:44:59.030327+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:05:35.716852
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LAVENDER, Justice
(dissenting in part) :
I respectfully dissent to that portion of the majority opinion which approves the allowance of additional attorney’s fees to wife’s counsel for defense of the appeal to this court.
The purpose of 12 O.S.Supp.1965, § 1276 was to authorize the allowance by the trial court in a divorce proceeding of additional expense money which may, in that court’s discretion, be necessary to enforce any order made in the divorce decree. In this case, after the husband’s motion for new trial was overruled, and he announced in open court his intention to appeal to this court, the trial court heard the wife’s application (under the cited statute) and allowed the additional attorney’s fees therein requested not for the enforcement of the court’s decree but for the defense of an appeal to this court from that decree, something which was not contemplated by the above statute.
I concur in other portions of the majority opinion.
I am authorized to state that BLACKBIRD, J. concurs in these views.