Parks v. Fink

¶1 — In this attorney negligence case, nonclient Terry Parks alleges that attorney Janyce Fink owed him a *368duty of care to promptly execute the will naming him as a prospective beneficiary. To impose a duty in this case would severely compromise the attorney’s duty of undivided loyalty to the client and impose an untenable burden on the attorney-client relationship. We therefore hold that an attorney owes no duty of care to a prospective beneficiary to have a will executed promptly.

FACTS

¶2 Testator John J. Balko suffered from terminal cancer. He signed a will prepared by attorney Alan…