Lamare v. Basbanes

The plaintiffs appeal from summary judgment entered in favor of the defendant attorney pursuant to Mass. R. Civ. P. 56, 365 Mass. 824 (1974), after a Superior Court judge concluded that the defendant did not owe a legal duty to the plaintiffs. We transferred this case from the Appeals Court on our own motion.

The defendant is the attorney for Stanley Voulgarelis, Lamare’s ex-husband and the father of the two minor plaintiffs. The relevant facts, taken from the complaint and affidavit of the defendant, are uncontested.

Voulgarelis filed for divorce from Lamare after she became suspicious that he…