(1) If the successful party is represented by a licensed attorney, the following attorney's
fees shall be allowed:
(a) In the Court of Appeals, .......................................................................... $10.00
(b) In the Circuit Court, .................................................................................... 5.00
(c) In all cases in the District Court, ................................................................. 2.50
(2) A guardian ad litem or warning order attorney shall be allowed by the court a
reasonable fee for his services, to be paid by the plaintiff and taxed as costs.
(3) The attorney fees allowed by subsection (1)(b) and (c) shall be taxed as costs at the
termination of the action and the clerks of the various courts shall at the end of each
month pay all sums collected as taxed attorney's fees during the month to the
trustees of the county law library to be used by the trustees pursuant to KRS
Chapter 172.
Effective: June 20, 2005
History: Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 80, sec. 1, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended
1982 Ky. Acts ch. 118, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1982. --Amended 1976 (1st Extra.
Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 14, sec. 468, effective January 2, 1978. --Amended 1976 Ky.
Acts ch. 10, sec. 1 -- Amended 1962 Ky. Acts ch. 55, sec. 1. -- Recodified 1942 Ky.
Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 1720, 1742.
Notes of Decisions
Spees v. Kentucky Legal Aid (2009)
ky · cites it 9×
“The direct mandate of KRS 453.060 with respect to payments of warning order attorney fees is more specific than the general reference of KRS 453.”
Earthgrains v. Cranz (1999)
kyctapp · cites it 2×
“220 permits a circuit court in a domestic relations case, after consideration of the financial resources of the parties, to order a party to pay a reasonable amount for the cost to the other party of maintaining or defending an action; KRS 453.060(1) permits a successful party…”
Owens v. Clemons (1966)
kyctapphigh
“There are other social purposes served by allowing the successful claimant to recover an attorney’s fee in this type of •case.”
Commonwealth v. Coleman (1985)
kyctapp · cites it 4×
“We are less persuaded, however, by the arguments of the Cabinet with respect to appellees Coleman and Markham.”
Mullins v. Consol of Kentucky, Inc. (2012)
kyctapp · cites it 2×
“We do not envision that such a result was intended by the legislature in its enactment of KRS 453.060, but rather that the plaintiff should directly bear the cost of any awarded GAL fees.”
Cabinet for Human Resources v. Howard (1985)
kyctapp
“However, KRS 453.060(2) provides that “[a] guardian ad litem or warning order attorney shall be allowed by the court a reasonable fee for his services, to be paid by the plaintiff and taxed as costs.”
Cabinet for Human Resources v. S.R.J. (1986)
kyctapp · cites it 2×
“03 or KRS 453.060(2). This does not mean that appel-lee guardian might not privately recover such fees at some later date as counsel for next friend in a future action before the Board.”
Sparks v. Boggs (1992)
kyctapp
“Also, KRS 453.060 provides that a guardian ad litem’s fee is to be paid by the plaintiff and taxed as costs, while KRS 387.”
Goldfuss v. Goldfuss (1980)
kyctapp · cites it 2×
“00 fee and his statement in the order of August 21, 1978, that he believed his court to be lacking in authority to award fees on counsel’s motion, we believe that the circuit court may have been under the misapprehension that he was limited in the award of fees to compensate the…”
— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 453.060(1) — 3 cases
Spees v. Kentucky Legal Aid (2009)
ky
“The direct mandate of KRS 453.060 with respect to payments of warning order attorney fees is more specific than the general reference of KRS 453.”
Earthgrains v. Cranz (1999)
kyctapp
“220 permits a circuit court in a domestic relations case, after consideration of the financial resources of the parties, to order a party to pay a reasonable amount for the cost to the other party of maintaining or defending an action; KRS 453.060(1) permits a successful party…”
Goldfuss v. Goldfuss (1980)
kyctapp
“00 fee and his statement in the order of August 21, 1978, that he believed his court to be lacking in authority to award fees on counsel’s motion, we believe that the circuit court may have been under the misapprehension that he was limited in the award of fees to compensate the…”
— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 453.060(2) — 7 cases
Spees v. Kentucky Legal Aid (2009)
ky
“The direct mandate of KRS 453.060 with respect to payments of warning order attorney fees is more specific than the general reference of KRS 453.”
Commonwealth v. Coleman (1985)
kyctapp
“We are less persuaded, however, by the arguments of the Cabinet with respect to appellees Coleman and Markham.”
Earthgrains v. Cranz (1999)
kyctapp
“220 permits a circuit court in a domestic relations case, after consideration of the financial resources of the parties, to order a party to pay a reasonable amount for the cost to the other party of maintaining or defending an action; KRS 453.060(1) permits a successful party…”
Cabinet for Human Resources v. Howard (1985)
kyctapp
“However, KRS 453.060(2) provides that “[a] guardian ad litem or warning order attorney shall be allowed by the court a reasonable fee for his services, to be paid by the plaintiff and taxed as costs.”
Mullins v. Consol of Kentucky, Inc. (2012)
kyctapp
“We do not envision that such a result was intended by the legislature in its enactment of KRS 453.060, but rather that the plaintiff should directly bear the cost of any awarded GAL fees.”
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