IN RE MARRIAGE OF BURTON

No. 5-89-0693.

561 N.E.2d 180 (1990)

203 Ill. App.3d 890

148 Ill.Dec. 874

In re MARRIAGE OF Leota J. BURTON and Joe A. Burton Burger, Frombelle, Baxter, Zachry & Rathburn, P.C., Petitioner-Appellant, v. Leota J. Burton, Respondent-Appellee).

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District.

August 30, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman J. Fombelle and Kent A. Rathbun, of counsel, Burger, Fombelle, Zachry & Rathbun, P.C., Decatur, for petitioner-appellant.

Phillip M. Kirby, Mason City, for respondent-appellee.


Justice HOWERTON delivered the opinion of the court:

In 1987, the circuit court of Shelby County entered a final order dissolving respondent's marriage. That order did not reserve the determination of attorney fees.

More than two years later, respondent's lawyers filed in that same dissolution case a petition for attorney fees and costs for both pre-judgment and post-judgment legal services performed in respondent's dissolution action.

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