Document Type

Report

Publication Date

11-1989

Publication Title

Cleveland Bar Journal

Keywords

attorney, client, ethics, incompetent, guardian ad litem

Abstract

When an attorney files suit on behalf of a client and later has reason to believe the client is incompetent, what should the attorney do? Can the case be settled? Can the attorney move for the appointment of a guardian ad litem? The article is an excerpt from an ethics opinion which answers these questions.

Comments

A report of the Cleveland Bar Association Professional Ethics Committee containing the headnote and partial text of Cleveland Bar Association Ethics Opinion No. 89-3. David Forte submitted the report as the Chair of the Professional Ethics Committee.

Volume

61

Issue

1

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