In Re the Guardianship of Glasser

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• providing that an attorney ad litem “is not entitled to recover fees for representing his own interests, rather than those of his involuntary client, on appeal”
• “The attorney ad litem performs the services of an attorney—he does legal and factual research, gives advice and makes recommendations to his client, and conducts litigation.”
• “In defending the probate court’s authorization to hire litigation counsel and its award of ad litem fees, Pena and Lopez have been protecting their own interests, not those of Mrs. Glasser. The Probate Code does not authorize compensation for fees incurred in these circumstances.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).