Legal Opinion
Outlaw v. Rye
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided November 15, 2011No. A11A1419PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Blackwell, Judge.
Shelby Outlaw is a lawyer, and she represented Brodie Rye in a custody dispute with his ex-wife, Susan. When Brodie failed to pay Outlaw the fees that she apparently had earned, Outlaw attempted, *580pursuant to OCGA § 15-19-14 (c),1 to put a statutory attorney’s lien on certain real property in which Brodie then had an interest. Outlaw later filed a petition in Fulton County to foreclose this lien, but by that time, Brodie had conveyed his interest in the property to Susan, and Susan moved to dismiss the foreclosure petition. The court below granted the motion to dismiss, based…
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