Code Civ. Proc., § 874.020 · Article 1. Allowance and Apportionment of Costs of Partition
Code Civ. Proc., § 874.020
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The costs of partition include reasonable expenses, including attorney’s fees, necessarily incurred by a party for the common benefit in prosecuting or defending other actions or other proceedings for the protection, confirmation, or perfection of title, setting the boundaries, or making a survey of the property, with interest thereon at the legal rate from the time of making the expenditures.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 73.
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