California Laws|Section 874.020.

                                                

874.020.  

The costs of partition include reasonable expenses, including attorney’s fees, necessarily incurred by a party for the common benefit in prosecuting or defending other actions or other proceedings for the protection, confirmation, or perfection of title, setting the boundaries, or making a survey of the property, with interest thereon at the legal rate from the time of making the expenditures.

(Added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 73.)

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The language of Section 874.020 makes clear that only reasonable attorneys’ fees incurred in pursuing the partition action, for the common benefit of all parties, are to be apportioned. A review of the billings now provided by Plaintiffs’ counsel reflect that not all costs were incurred in pursuing this action for partition.

  • Name

    EFSTATHIOU VS CLESCERI

  • Case No.

    CVPS2102357

  • Hearing

    Oct 20, 2022

  • County

    Riverside County, CA

Under Section 874.020, the costs of partition also include the reasonable expenses, including attorneys’ fees, necessarily incurred by a party for the common benefit in prosecuting or defending other actions for the protection, confirmation, or perfection of title, setting the boundaries, or making a survey of the property, with interest.

  • Name

    DENISE OLMEDA VS THERESA TINSLEY

  • Case No.

    1469526

  • Hearing

    Dec 09, 2016

Discussion Code of Civil Procedure section 874.020 provides that the costs of partition include attorney’s fees “necessarily incurred by a party for the common benefit in prosecuting or defending other actions or other proceedings for the protection, confirmation, or perfection of title . . . .” (Code Civ. Proc., § 874.020.)

  • Name

    ADALJIZA SERRANO TAVERA ET AL VS JOHN MANUEL MORENO

  • Case No.

    BC597271

  • Hearing

    Mar 14, 2019

Code of Civil Procedure Section 874.020 provides: “The costs of partition include reasonable expenses, including attorney’s fees, necessarily incurred by a party for the common benefit in prosecuting or defending other actions or proceedings for the protection, confirmation, or perfection of title, setting the boundaries, or making a survey of the property, with interest thereon at the legal rate from the time of making the expenditures.”

  • Name

    ERIC HERLOW VS STEN HERLOW

  • Case No.

    1338287

  • Hearing

    Dec 13, 2011

Section 874.020 states that the costs of partition include reasonable expenses, including attorneys fees, necessarily incurred by a party for the common benefit. . . Section 874.040 states that the court shall apportion the costs of partition among the parties in proportion to their interests or make such other apportionment as may be equitable.

  • Name

    SHARON KUNKEL VS CARL MONFILS; ET AL

  • Case No.

    YC072561

  • Hearing

    Jun 27, 2023

  • County

    Los Angeles County, CA

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