Distler v. Distler

How courts have described this case

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• finding award not “clearly inappropriate” where award could be satisfied by respondent’s share of equity in marital residence in Israel
• finding it necessary for the petitioner to fly to the United States to attend a court-ordered hearing
• awarding $350 per hour in Hague Convention cases for \very experienced\ counsel with over 20 years of experience handling 165 cases under the convention
• reducing attorney’s fee by a third for work performed related to ongoing custody case in Israel; such work was not “necessary” to Hague Convention proceeding in the United States
• awarding $350 per hour in a Hague Convention case for “very experienced” counsel who had over twenty years of experience and had handled 165 cases under the Convention
• cutting by one-third the fees of an attorney in a Hague Convention case who also performed work related to the custody case in Israel because those fees were not necessary to the Hague case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).