Thorn v. Kelley

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the right to recover attorney fees only exists if a statute or agreement expressly authorizes it
• noting attorney fees “cannot be . . . allowed in the absence of a statute or agreement expressly authorizing it”
• award of attorney fees possible when divorce petition ultimately dismissed if sought under section 598.11

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).