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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF IOWA No. 6-827 / 05-1943 Filed December 28, 2006 IN THE MATTER OF THE GUARDIANSHIP AND CONSERVATORSHIP OF HOWARD REYNOLDS, a/k/a HOWARD A. REYNOLDS, DANIEL CLARK, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Howard Reynolds, and MAXINE CLARK, Individually, Appellants. ________________________________________________________________ Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Harrison County, James Richardson, Judge.

Beneficiaries of a decedent's estate appeal, following remand, from a district court order that awarded attorney fees to a law firm that had represented the decedent in certain matters. AFFIRMED IN PART, REVERSED IN PART, AND REMANDED.

Warren L. Bush, Wall Lake, for appellant. Robert Kohorst of Kohorst, Early & Louis, Harlan, for appellee firm.

Considered by Mahan, P.J., and Miller and Vaitheswaran, JJ.

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PER CURIAM. In 2003 Daniel and Maxine Clark, beneficiaries of the estate of Howard Reynolds, filed an appeal from an October 2003 order that approved payment of attorney fees to the law firm of Kohorst, Early & Louis (Kohorst). Upon our review for the correction of errors at law, we held the Clarks were bound by a June 2003 order that had approved a contingent fee agreement with Kohorst, as well as $85,000 in attorney fees already paid to the firm. In re Guardianship & Conservatorship of Reynolds, No. 03-1924 (Iowa Ct. App. Jan. 13, 2005) (Reynolds I). However, we reversed the October 2003 order to the extent it awarded an additional $61,883.90 in attorney fees, and remanded the matter to the district court with directions. Id. The district court again approved the fees, and the Clarks again appeal. 1 As we stated in Reynolds I, our review is for the correction of errors at law. Iowa Code

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