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HALE v. HALE

No. 88-SC-00515-DG.

772 S.W.2d 628 (1989)

Julie Ann HALE and Richard W. Born, Esq., Movants, v. Ernest Lee HALE, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

June 29, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard W. Born, Sheehan, Barnett & Hays, PSC, Danville, for Movants, Julie Ann Hale and Richard W. Born.

Harry Rankin, Northern Kentucky Bar Ass'n Covington, for Northern Kentucky Bar Ass'n amicus curiae.

Alice C. Kinkead, Fayette County Bar Ass'n, Pro Bono Program, Inc., Leslie Patterson Vose, Lexington, for Fayette County Bar Ass'n Pro Bono Program Amicus Curiae.

Ephraim Woods Helton, Helton & Helton, Danville, for respondent.

VANCE, Justice.

The question is whether, pursuant to K.R.S. 403.220, a trial court may award an attorney's fee to an attorney who represented the wife pro bono publico in a divorce action.

K.R.S. 403.220 provides:

"The court from time to time after considering the financial resources of both parties may order a party to pay a reasonable amount for the cost to the other party of maintaining or defending any proceeding under this chapter and for attorney...

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