Cody
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I'm no legal expert, but there was a chance that I could have been awarded legal expenses if the case had gone to trial and I won. Not a sure thing, but definitely something my attorney would have vigorously argued for.It seams like if the case was found in favor of Cody legally owning the property that Craig would be liable for Cody's legal expense?? What I don't know about LAW, you could write volumes on but isn't that how it works? I'm going thru a succession where my attorney says "if your challenged and found to be correct then the legal fees are owed by the challenger that lost". If this isn't correct, I'm not understanding where you could go to defend yourself against any giant firm defending a well to do client?
However, this ended in a settlement before it went to trial, so the end result is less an expression of what the law says the outcome should be, and more whatever the parties could agree on in order for everyone to drop their lawsuits.
Everyone's expenses would have shot through the roof if it went to trial, so it was in the common interest to find a compromise before that. I've heard it said that in a good compromise, everyone walks away unhappy. In my case that meant that I got title to the guitar, but no reimbursement for legal fees.
I could have declined, taken my chances in court, and maybe have ended up a little better off... or possibly way, WAY worse off. Under the circumstances, given a host of f'ked up choices to pick from, I feel I made the right call.