California Court of Appeal

In an attorney's suit against his former clients, seeking recovery of attorney fees under Code of Civil Procedure section 685.040, which permits a judgment creditor to recover attorney fees incurred in enforcing a judgment, trial court's judgment against the attorney is affirmed where: 1) the defendants did not challenge the attorney's judgment against them, but were instead bystanders to the battle between the attorney and a third party who had priority to the defendants' assets in satisfaction of the attorney's and the third party's separate judgments against the defendants, and here, a dispute over priority of judgments is not the same as enforcing those judgments.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/05/2010
• Published 11/05/2010

Judges

• RUBIN

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ronald P. Slates, Jeanne Collachia