{"content":[{"text":"PUBLISHED OPINIONS \n KENTUCKY COURT OF APPEALS \n DECEMBER 1, 2016 to DECEMBER 31, 2016","bbox":{"left":0.305719,"top":0.115143,"width":0.38522399999999996,"height":0.061811000000000005}},{"text":"I. APPEALS","bbox":{"left":0.094706,"top":0.264991,"width":0.109113,"height":0.02135700000000007}},{"text":"A.","bbox":{"left":0.118078,"top":0.314575,"width":0.018235000000000015,"height":0.020145000000000024}},{"text":"Fink v. Fink","bbox":{"left":0.166699,"top":0.31547,"width":0.09782699999999997,"height":0.018851000000000007}},{"text":"2016-CA-000797 12/22/2016 2016 WL 7405769 \n Opinion and order by Judge VanMeter; Judge Combs concurred; Judge Thompson \n dissented and filed a separate opinion.","bbox":{"left":0.098039,"top":0.350959,"width":0.694566,"height":0.06171399999999999}},{"text":"Appellant brought a civil action against appellee, and the circuit court entered an \n order directing appellant to pay appellee’s attorney’s fees. Appellant challenged \n the award on appeal, but the Court of Appeals dismissed due to his failure to name \n appellee’s attorney as a party to the appeal. Citing to Neidlinger v. Neidlinger, 52 \n S.W.3d 513 (Ky. 2001), the Court noted that if fees are ordered to be paid directly \n to the attorney - as was the case here - the attorney may enforce the order in his \n own name and, thus, is the real party in interest and a necessary and indispensable \n party to any appeal from that order. Therefore, the appeal was subject to \n dismissal because appellee’s counsel was a real party in interest and an \n indispensable party. The Court further held that appellant’s belated attempt to \n cure the deficiency in the notice of appeal by amending it to add appellee’s \n attorney was ineffective and improper. Any attempt to amend the notice of appeal \n to add indispensable parties must be accomplished within the normal time \n requirements for filing the notice of appeal.","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.427258,"width":0.6795690000000001,"height":0.2572589999999999}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}