Schneider v. Leaphart

Plaintiff appeals from the order of the Ninth Judicial District in and for Chouteau County, Montana, granting defendant’s motion for summary judgment. We affirm.

C.W. Leaphart is an attorney residing in Helena. In 1979, Dr. Lawrence Schneider, a Helena dentist, and his wife, Lynne Schneider, approached Leaphart and asked that he represent them in a joint petition for dissolution. Leaphart agreed to the representation and recommended that the Schneiders work out a suitable property settlement on their own.

Dr. Schneider’s accountant recommended that he frame part of the property settlement as…