Opinion ID: 2338745
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Heading: Standing to assert security interests.

Text: In a Motion to Assert a Lien Against Any Monetary Award to [National], filed January 24, 1991, Corto asserted that certain lenders to the production, including her mother and son, had perfected security interests in the chattels attached by National by virtue of their filings with the New York State Office of the Attorney General. There is no evidence in the record of the asserted filings. The purported secured lenders did not appear in Superior court to challenge National's attachment. The trial court ruled that Corto had no standing to assert the absent creditors' perfected security interests against National's claim and could not represent their interests. In the circumstances of this case, we agree. See D.C.Code §§ 16-520, 523 (1997). [15] The secured lenders' interests are not Corto's; indeed, they are contrary to her interest. Moreover, Rules 101(a)(1) and (2) of the Superior Court Rules of Civil Procedure provide that one who is not a licensed attorney cannot prosecute or defend a claim on behalf of another. Since Corto is not an attorney and she was asserting a claim on behalf of third parties, the trial court was correct in holding that she had no standing. [16]