Section 11 Attorney Fees

• Library: Remedies 2006

The court may award attorney fees as costs to the aggrieved party in a contempt proceeding to compensate for losses or damages sustained by the contemnor’s noncompliance. The award of attorney fees is not a portion of the civil contempt order itself, which is solely to coerce compliance (which means that even if the contempt order is non-appealable, the attorney fee award can be). In re Marriage of Crow & Gilmore, 103 S.W.3d 778 (Mo. banc 2003); C.L. Smith Indus. Co. v. Matecki, 914 S.W.2d 873 (Mo. App...