How does the court apportion attorney fees between a plaintiff and plaintiff?

determines entitlement to an award of attorney fees, apportionment of that award rests within the court's sound discretion. (Carver v. Chevron U.S.A., Inc. (2004) 119 Cal.App.4th 498, 505.) The court only abuses that discretion when "it exceeds the bounds of reason, all of the circumstances before it being considered. The burden is on the party complaining to establish that discretion was clearly abused and a miscarriage of justice resulted." (Ibid.)