Meyers v. Handlon

STATON, Presiding Judge.

Goldman and Handlon brought this action to enforce their contingency attorney fee contract. The amount of their attorney fees was contingent upon the value of the property settlement obtained for Mrs. Meyers in her dissolution action. A partial summary judgment was granted by the trial court which eliminated Mrs. Meyers' affirmative defense that a contingency attorney fee contract in a dissolution action is against public policy, void, and unenforceable. She appeals from the granting of this partial summary judgment.

The sole issue for our review is whether contingency…