Fallahzadeh v. Ghorbanian

Akbar Fallahzadeh prevailed in an unlawful detainer action he commenced to collect unpaid rent from a dental practice, Abraham Ghorbanian, D.D.S., P.S. Ghorbanian’s practice and Fallahzadeh owned as tenants-in-common the building where the practice was located, but they entered into a lease agreement for the practice to rent the building and pay Fallahzadeh rent in the amount of 50 percent of the practice’s net profits. Ghorbanian contends on appeal that the trial court erred in enforcing the lease because it constituted the illegal practice of dentistry by his landlord, a nondentist. We…