Malone v. Malone

Because the judgment appealed from must be reversed in part and the cause remanded for a redetermination of the attorneys’ fees, a full recital of the context within which this fee issue arose is unnecessary. Suffice it to state only a few background facts.

Pearline Huffman Malone, the purported widow of Moses Malone and the mother of his two minor children, retained C. Knox McLaney III and J. Doyle Fuller, lawyers, to represent her and her minor children as the alleged lawful widow and children of Moses Malone, deceased. She agreed to pay these lawyers a contingency fee of *933one-third of any…