Martin v. Tate

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the pro bono status of appel-lee’s counsel did not bar the trial court from awarding attorney’s fees
• upholding award of attorney’s fees after mother successfully obtained custody of children after having de facto custody for nine years
• upholding fee award to prevailing party in domestic relations case even though the party was not required to pay any fees because the party’s attorney was with a public service organization
• same with respect to custody action filed by mother where no prior custody order had been entered but mother had had “de facto” custody of children
• “[W]e recognize that, in the absence of a custody decree, each parent has an equal right to the custody of his or her children . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).