LEO: Domestic Relations - Conflict of  LE Op. 354

 

Domestic Relations - Conflict of Interest.

 

January 7, 1980

 

It is improper for an attorney to represent a husband in a contested

divorce when he or she previously prepared a property settlement agreement

for both the husband and wife and also represented both parties in an

adoption matter. [See II: DR:5-105(D).]

 

Committee Opinion January 7, 1980

 

CROSS REFERENCES

 

See also LE Op. 569.