Sanders v. Rosenberg

OPINION

PICKARD, Judge.

This ease calls upon us to decide whether a trial court can disqualify a party’s counsel of choice in a domestic relations case on the basis of either an alleged conflict of interest because the counsel is the party’s spouse, or to serve the best interests of children involved in the matter. We decide that the trial court erred in disqualifying Mother’s counsel, reverse the trial court’s order disqualifying Mother’s counsel, and remand to the trial court for further proceedings.

Mother, Merle Applebaum Sanders, and Father, Michael G. Rosenberg, were granted a divorce on…