Lund v. Merrick CA4/3
This is the fourth appeal in a case that puts Jarndyce v. Jarndyce in the shade. And, as was true with the interminable Dickensian lawsuit, the legal fees must be voracious but the issues are dwindling.
The original combatants were Sherry Lund, plaintiff, and Dominique Merrick, defendant. Sherry Lund’s lawsuit against Merrick was dismissed pursuant to Merrick’s anti-SLAPP motion. Since then Merrick has been trying to collect the legal fees awarded to her as a prevailing defendant. This effort has drawn Sherry’s husband, William Lund, into the fray, because William has some money coming to him from the settlement of a Los Angeles Superior Court case involving a trust. After three tries, Merrick finally received an assignment order from the Orange County Superior Court allowing her to collect her fee award of approximately $130,000 from William’s trust payments on the ground that the money is community property. Both William and Sherry have appealed from this order.
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