Wilson-Cunningham v. Meyer

How courts have described this case

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• noting that any property settlement with decedent’s wife from the divorce would incidentally affect anything he would pass through intestate suc- cession
• noting that any property settlement with decedent’s wife from the divorce would incidentally affect anything he would pass through intestate suc- cession
• holding attorneys owed no duty to children for attorneys’ actions taken or not taken in their father’s divorce and affirming summary judgment dismissing legal malpractice action
• noting that it would have been appropriate to deny the attorney’s liability to his client’s children “solely on the basis that the legal representation . . . was not intended to benefit [the decedent’s] children.”
• “Allowing individuals to whom there was no foreseeable risk of harm to bring an action for negligence would not prevent future harm to individuals to whom there is a foreseeable risk for negligent representation.”
• “Allowing individuals to whom there was no foreseeable risk of harm to bring an action for negligence would not prevent future harm to individuals to whom there is a foreseeable risk for negligent representation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).