Markey v. Carney

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding theory was not available to father for purposes of challenging back child support award
• stating that “the decision 12 to award attorney fees rests within the sound discretion of the court, and we will not disturb its decision absent a finding of abuse of discretion” (cleaned up)
• finding extra company payments reasonably expected to be received can be considered to establish gross income of a party
• weighing needs of requesting party, other party’s ability to pay, and requesting party’s obligation to defend the district court’s ruling 6 on appeal
• allowing amount of appellate attorney fees to be determined in the first instance in the district court because of the necessity for making a record
• noting amount of appellate attorney fees is frequently decided first in the district court because of the need for a record

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).