Branham v. Stewart

I must respectfully dissent from the majority’s opinion extending the attorney-client relationship with a guardian to the ward of the guardian actually represented. I do so for several reasons.

*104Firstly, opening of this “door” will invite greater extensions. See Fickett v. Superior Court of Pima County, 27 Ariz.App. 793, 558 P.2d 988 (1976) (conservator of incompetent’s estate brought action against attorney for former guardian alleging that attorney was negligent in failing to discover that guardian had embarked upon scheme of misappropriation, conversion, and improper investment of ward’s…