Dennis G. Ott, P.S. v. Estate of Whitmire

¶1 Attorney Dennis Ott appeals a superior court order denying his request for disbursement of surplus funds from a nonjudicial foreclosure sale of the former family home, previously awarded to the former husband of his deceased client, Debbie E. Whitmire, to satisfy Ott’s judgment against Whitmire for nonpayment of her dissolution-action attorney fees. Ott argues that (1) the foreclosure court erred in ordering transfer of the surplus funds to Whitmire’s estate, thereby subjecting his claim to probate, and (2) because his attorney lien, reduced to judgment, had priority under RCW 61.24.080…