General Objection to Tentative Decision Awarding Incurred Fees Over Requested Amount Overturned.
Marriage of Sidiakina and Navid, Case No. A129313 (1st Dist., Div. 4 Sept. 24, 2012) (unpublished) is another due process reversal in a family case where a lower court awarded $74,200.78 in fees to husband even though he only requested an award of $37,100 (fees incurred in a previous appeal, fraught with wife being declared a vexatious litigant along the way). The tentative ruling by the lower court announced this surprise result, and wife generically objected to the ruling--enough to preserve the issue of notice and due process for reversal. The gratuitous twice fee award was reversed on appeal to the requested fee award of $37,100.
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