Court Opinion

ID: 9681867
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 08:00:00.009004+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:35.357466
License: Public Domain

REEVES, Justice,
concurring.
I concur in the result. However, I do not agree that the failure of Gamez to follow up on the entry of the divorce decree in the Farris divorce was not prejudicial to the Courts or the State Bar of Texas. Because it is custom in Bexar County for the prevailing party to enter the judgment does not relieve opposing counsel from the responsibility of verifying the entry of the judgment. It is also common practice among the attorneys of this Bar to require the attorney entering the judgment to advise the other attorney the date of entry of the judgment, thereby assuring the entry of a final judgment before closing the file. The proof of that statement is the consequences that occurred in this case. Mrs. Farris, relying on her attorney that the divorce was finalized, remarried. Two years later, to her dismay, she finds there is no written documentation of her divorce. There is, in my opinion, sufficient evidence to find Gamez’s conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice.