Legal Opinion
LaPorte v. Mott
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 16, 1996PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the CourtMercure, J.
Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Cobb, J.), entered June 16, 1995 in Columbia County, which, inter alia, denied third-party defendants’ motion to dismiss the third-party complaint for failure to state a cause of action.
Defendant and third-party plaintiff, Richard L. Mott, was plaintiff’s attorney in her divorce action against her former husband, Richard LaPorte. That action was resolved by a July 1988 stipulation of settlement providing, as relevant here, that *825plaintiff forgive maintenance arrears and waive any right to distribution of an interest in LaPorte’s business, Capital…
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