Buechler

INTRODUCTION

Virginia Buechler and Bruce Woockman (appellants) have again appealed from an order denying their request for attorney fees for enforcing a judgment against Vanessa Butker, Lenora Schroder, and Sister Group, LLC (defendants or respondents), through a contempt motion. This is the second time an attorney fee order has been before us in this case. In the first appeal, we reversed the order denying fees under Code of 1 Civil Procedure section 645.040 because the trial court had erred in applying the statute. We sent the matter back, however, because we concluded the trial court had not considered an additional statutory factor: whether the fees incurred were “reasonable and necessary.” We instructed the court to make the necessary findings as to this issue. On remand, the court made these findings. It found that the fees incurred to bring the contempt motion were not reasonable and necessary; in fact, appellants’ activities, including the motion, were designed to make respondents’ efforts to comply with the judgment against them “as difficult and costly as possible.” Accordingly, the court denied the attorney fee motion. We affirm the order. Appellants bore the burden of…