Does the attorney-client relationship between Sophia and her first attorneys terminate upon their discharge?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from Marriage of Borson, In re, 112 Cal.Rptr. 432, 37 Cal.App.3d 632 (Cal. App. 1974):

We disagree. We think that the attorney-client relationship by Sophia and her first attorneys terminated upon their discharge on November 30, 1971, for all purposes except the winding-up of the relationship. Such winding-up In this case involved the doing of two things--(1) the making of the motion on her behalf that appellant pay additional fees and costs to her attorneys, and (2) the formal change in Sophia's representation in the proceeding. In the interval between the discharge and the substitution of representation, Sophia's attorneys, As her attorneys of record, alone could appear in court for her and continued as her only attorneys in the proceeding. (See Epley v. Califro, 49 Cal.2d 849, 854, 323 P.2d 91.)

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