Advisory Opinion: 1074

Year Issued: 1987

RPC(s): RPC 1.5(c); 1.5(d)

Subject: Contingent fee in non-marital domestic partnership dissolution

The Committee was of the opinion that nothing in the Rules of Professional Conduct would prohibit a lawyer form representing a client in a non-marital domestic partnership breakup in which there were no children on a contingent fee basis. Essentially, the Committee agreed with the legal analysis set out in your letter of January 5, 1987.

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