STATE OF TENNESSEE EX REL. ANGELA HOCKETT v. TRACY JOY

The trial court entered an order awarding a mother retroactive child support and calculating the amount of support the father owed.  The father filed a motion for relief from the judgment pursuant to Tenn. R. Civ. P. 60.02.  Several months later, he amended his motion to assert that he was entitled to relief from the judgment because his attorney sustained an injury and died, which prevented the father from timely receiving a copy of the judgment so he could appeal it.  The trial court denied the motion, finding that the father failed to raise the issue within a reasonable time, and then awarded the mother one-half of her attorney fees.  The father appeals.  We affirm the trial court’s denial of the motion, but we vacate the award of attorney fees because the trial court failed to consider their reasonableness.