Jasper v. Smith

This is a case in which a lawyer seeks to deny his client the very necessities he told the judge his client must not be denied. In ruling his lien invalid the trial judge told the *406wife’s former attorney, it was “wretched that you, months ago were arguing for the needs and necessities of your client and now you’re trying to take every bit of it away from her to the extent of some $22,307 worth of alimony at the rate of $450 a month. That’s about $6,000 a year she would be without any sustenance whatsoever for almost four years.” Most courts prohibit attorney’s liens on support and so should we.