Mieras v. DeBona

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• holding that a lawyer who drafts a will has a limited duty to the beneficiaries named in the will
• holding that a lawyer who drafts a will has a limited duty to the beneficiaries named in the will
• observing that pursuant to “the named beneficiaries’ status as third-party beneficiaries . . . , the attorney also owes the beneficiaries a tort-based duty to draft the documents with the requisite standard of care”
• stating the beneficiary named in a will may bring a tort-based action for negligence in drafting the will, but the court will not look to extrinsic evidence
• stating the beneficiary named in a will may bring a tort- based action for negligence in drafting the will, but the court will not look to extrinsic evidence
• Boyd, J., concurring, joined by Brickley, C.J., and Cavanagh, Riley, Mallett, and Weaver, JJ.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).