Perspective
Apr. 2, 2013
Beware using real property liens as security for fees
When you take a "FLARPL" against the community interest, you take it subject to the risk that the market or the facts of the case may "eat up [your] client's interest in the property." By Mitchell A. Jacobs and John Adam Lazor
In the recent case In re Marriage of Turkanis and Price, 213 Cal. App. 4th 332 (Cal. App. 2d Dist, Jan. 30, 2013), the Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court's decision to expunge the Family Law Attorney Real Property Liens, or FLARPLs, recorded by wife's counsel and only grant a small percentage of the attorney fees requested in her counsel's Borson motion.
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