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        Restricted2. Divorce Source: RECOVERY OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS DAMAGES IN DOMESTIC RELATIONS ATTORNEY MALPRACTICE ACTIONS
Attorney malpractice, like other areas of malpractice, has well-defined elements. Generally, regardless of whether the plaintiff couches the action in terms of breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, or negligence, the plaintiff must prove ...
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        Restricted3. Divorce Source: Attorney and Client/Ethical Violations/Assault
Two new cases further support a courts authority to impose disciplinary action on an attorney who misbehaves in his own domestic relations case. In the first case, a prosecuting attorney had been dating a colleague from the office for several months when during a fateful evening he beat her up, caus ...
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Numerous new cases and ethics opinions have been issued concerning sex with clients in the divorce context. The Colorado Supreme Court adopted the rule that a sexual relationship with a client, especially in the dissolution of marriage, custody, or support context, will be a violation of ethical rul ...
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        Restricted5. Divorce Source: Attorney and Client/Malpractice/Inadequate Settlement
Mary Clark hired George Callahan as her attorney in her divorce. Clark told Callahan her goals were to obtain custody of her four children, to retain a role in operating the family business which was located in a shop adjacent to the marital home ...
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A recent decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court appears to restrict the scope of its much-condemned decision in Muhammad v. Strassburger, McKenna, Messer, Shilobod & Gutnick, 526 Pa. 541, 587 A.2d 1346, cert. denied, 502 U.S. 867 1991. ...
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        Restricted7. Divorce Source: Divorce/Reopening Decree/Attorney's Relationship with Client
Many cases have held that an attorney ...
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        Restricted8. Divorce Source: SEX AND THE BAR: MALPRACTICE LIABILITY
In late 1993, this publication reviewed the state of the law concerning the ethical propriety of a domestic relations attorney engaging in a sexual relationship with his or her client. ...
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        Restricted9. Divorce Source: Attorney and Client/Malpractice/Negligent Advice to Settle
In Nebraska, the law is unsettled as to whether unvested stock options are marital property and thus divisible in an equitable distribution action. The unsettled nature of the law, however, did not shield an attorney for failing to advise his client regarding those stock options. ...
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All divorce attorneys know that it is unethical to represent the wife in a divorce and then the husband in any postdivorce matters against the wife. Clearly, in such a situation, the attorney is in receipt of confidential information from the wife that the attorney cannot then use against her ...
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