MURPHY v. MURPHY


694 A.2d 932 (1997)

1997 ME 103

Nora MURPHY, et al. v. James R. MURPHY v. Louise H. MURPHY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided May 16, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Howard (orally), Turesky & Howard, Portland, for Louise Murphy.

William P. Shumaker (orally), Holman & Shumaker, Yarmouth, for Nora, Caitlin and Daniel Murphy.

Martin Schindler (orally), Martin Schindler, P.A., South Portland, for James Murphy.

Before WATHEN, C.J., and GLASSMAN, CLIFFORD, RUDMAN, DANA, and LIPEZ, JJ.


DANA, Justice.

[¶ 1] Louise Murphy appeals from the judgment entered in the Superior Court (Cumberland County, Saufley, J.) after a nonjury trial requiring her to pay her minor children $18,100 that her ex-husband, James Murphy, borrowed from the children. James Murphy cross-appeals asserting that the court erred when it ordered him to pay a portion of his children's attorney fees as a result of his breach of a fiduciary duty owed the children. The children also...

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