· 10/16/1930
Goldwater v. Commissioner
Citations
- 21 B.T.A. 73
- 1930 BTA LEXIS 1934
How courts have described this case
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- affirming the Board’s conclusion that client going through a difficult dissolution and child custody proceeding was a vulnerable victim
- imposing a one-year suspension against attorney who engaged in sexual Relationship with a marriage dissolution client
- declining to find a violation of former RLD 1.1 (1997) (“Commission of Act of Moral Turpitude”) because—at the time—“a bright-line rule prohibiting attorney-client sexual relations does not exist”
- comparing, for example, “In re Lewis, 262 Ga. 37, 415 S.E.2d 173 (1992) (three year suspension imposed where attorney commenced sexual relationship three years before being retained in divorce action even though no harm to client appeared to have resulted
- Johnson, J, concurring and dissenting
- consensual sexual relationship with client
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Judges: Seawell
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