Sorenson v. Pavlikowski

*441OPINION

By the Court,

Manoukian, J.:

This is a suit for professional malpractice. The petitioner was the attorney in an uncontested divorce action in which the parties had previously agreed to the terms of a settlement. One term of the agreement was that the husband, Thomas N. Gris-wold, the unnamed real party in interest in the instant matter, was to pay $3,600 in alimony over the course of one year.

Petitioner attorney, however, failed to incorporate the time limitation in either the divorce complaint, hearing, or decree *442and further failed to insert language permitting the court to retain…