Craig Morgan says his client Ford Motor Co. has had it with paying attorney fees to court-appointed guardians ad litem for post-settlement work done without a written court order. So Ford challenged a guardian ad litem fee award and the Texas Supreme Court agreed with its argument, Morgan says.
“They are just not going to take this lying down anymore,” Morgan, an Austin solo, says of his client’s fight. In its per curiam opinion in Ford Motor Co. v. Patricia Chacon, et al., the high court reversed El Paso’s 8th Court of Appeals, which had partially upheld the guardian ad litem fee award at issue. The Supreme Court rendered judgment that a guardian ad litem’s activities following resolution of the settlement of a case “are not compensable.”
