Opinion ID: 2333768
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: David and Deborah

Text: David and Deborah have interests in family businesses, including a real estate partnership consisting of David, Deborah, and their two sisters, and a corporation holding a significant real estate investment. In 2005 David initiated litigation regarding the partnership, seeking access to the partnership's financial records, an accounting, and a valuation of partnership interests. Deborah counterclaimed against David for intentional infliction of emotional distress, and David then sought dissolution of the partnership. Attorney B represented David in the 2005 partnership litigation. After David and Deborah's mother died in 2005, Attorney O represented David in suing his mother's estate and challenging the validity of his mother's trust. The disputed trust owned a family home on part of a plot originally purchased as tenants-in-common by David's father and a family friend. At some point, a member of the friend's family filed a partition suit for the plot; Deborah counterclaimed against members of that family and David, alleging in part that David's conduct and mental illness jeopardized her interest in the property. Attorney T represented David in the partition litigation and began assisting Attorney O in the trust litigation. In 2007 Deborah brought a derivative action regarding the corporation, alleging David and others were defrauding shareholders. Attorney T also represented David in this litigation. In July 2008 David, Deborah, and their two siblings reached a global settlement. They agreed to divide assets in their mother's estate and trust, wind up the partnership, and dismiss all pending cases except for Deborah's case against the corporation, although Deborah agreed to release her claims against David in that litigation. Her case against the corporation settled in early 2009.