Santoyo v. Snyder
Objector Michael Antin appeals from the trial courts orders awarding him attorney fees for representing Jose Santoyo as the trustee of a trust set up by a husband and wife before the wifes murder, and for representing Santoyo as the guardian of the estate of the couples three minor children. Santoyo is not a party to the appeal. Antin asserts the trial court abused its discretion by awarding him less in attorney fees than he requested. His appellate claim is largely forfeited. In a record approaching 1500 pages, he fails to identify the specific fee request(s) or supporting documentation of hours he claims the trial court arbitrarily disregarded. To the extent his appellate briefs included a required pinpoint citation, the cited page includes, for example, a general, block-billed entry for $20,000 as simply Fees incurred for a date range of almost five months, without any breakdown of hours worked or services performed. In the absence of the requisite supporting documentation, which enables the computation of a lodestar fee, Antins challenge to the trial courts award at a lower hourly rate and for fewer hours than he requested rings hollow, as does his claim of judicial bias. Court therefore affirm the fee orders.
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