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· 3/27/1991

ATTORNEY GRIEV. COMM'N OF MARYLAND OF MARYLAND v. Owrutsky

Citations

  • 587 A.2d 511
  • 322 Md. 334
  • 1991 Md. LEXIS 66

How courts have described this case

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  • handling of client funds as attorney in fact and misconduct during service as personal representative and trustee
  • suspending attorney for three years for mishandling client funds as attorney in fact and misconduct during service as personal representative
  • suspending attorney for three years for mishandling client funds as attorney in fact and misconduct during service as personal representative
  • stating that an attorney has no right to estate funds, “either as a commission or as an attorney’s fee, unless and until an approval pursuant to § 7-601 or § 7-602 of the Estates and Trusts Article, Maryland Code (1974, 1990 Cum.Supp.
  • stating that an attorney has no right to estate funds, “either as a commission or as an attorney’s fee, unless and until an approval pursuant to § 7-601 or § 7-602 of the Estates and Trusts Article, Maryland Code (1974, 1990 Cum.Supp.) has been obtained from the Orphans’ Court”
  • attorney engaged in misconduct when he withdrew funds as trustee from testamentary trust, because the loan was improper even though there was a clause allowing trustees to make investments

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Judges: Adkins, Charles, Cole, Eldridge, McAULIFFE, Murphy, Orth, Rodowsky

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