Patricia McKay v. Thomas G. Walker

HORTON, Justice.

Patricia McKay appeals the grant of summary judgment in favor of Thomas Walker and Cosho Humphrey, LLP, in a legal malpractice action. McKay contended that Walker negligently drafted a property settlement agreement by failing to include provisions that would have resulted in a judgment lien against payments owed to her husband which were secured by a mortgage. The district court concluded that because a mortgage is personal property and not real property, the failure to include a description of the real property subject to the mortgage and the mortgage’s instrument number…