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Lack of privity sinks fiancée’s suit against divorce lawyer

By Karen Rubin on September 25, 2014

Divorce DecreeAfter winning more than $250,000 at trial, the fiancée of a deceased postal worker came up short in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals based on lack of privity between her and the lawyers who mishandled the decedent’s divorce.

In Scott v. Burgin, the fiancée and the decedent had lived together for years,…

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