Crittenden v. Ferguson

I must respectfully dissent. Critten-den’s advice to her client amounted to advising her client to disobey the territorial restriction in the divorce judgment. Her argument that her advice was an expression of legal opinion made in good faith, an argument made so as to fit her conduct within the holdings of In re Willis, 242 Ala. 284, 5 So.2d 716 (1941); In re Powers, 523 So.2d 1079 (Ala.Civ.App.1988); and In re Carter, 412 So.2d 811 (Ala.Civ.App.1982), in my opinion, fails.

In Willis, the city attorneys interpreted an injunction in such a way as to allow the city to execute a search warrant…