California Code
ARTICLE 1 - Allowance and Apportionment of Costs of Partition
Section 874.020.

874.020. 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.

(Added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 73.)