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Related: About this forumWoman claims lawyers should have told her divorce would end her marriage
A British woman attempted to sue her former lawyers for professional negligence, claiming that, alongside a number of other allegations, they failed to advise that finalising divorce proceedings would inevitably cause her marriage to end.
The curious case - made against two solicitor firms - had already been rejected by the court, but was revealed in the transcript of a later appeal by the claimant against the dismissal of other aspects of her case.
Jane Mulcahy had argued that the lawyers should have made it clear that a divorce would cause her marriage to be terminated - something which she apparently wanted to avoid.
The lawyers failed to regard her Roman Catholic faith and should have recommended judicial separation - a step down from full divorce - as an alternative course of action, she said.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/woman-claims-lawyers-should-have-told-her-divorce-would-end-her-marriage-9051550.html
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Woman claims lawyers should have told her divorce would end her marriage (Original Post)
n2doc
Jan 2014
OP
Ignorance on her part does not constitute malpractic on part of the lawyers
liberal N proud
Jan 2014
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Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)1. :Eyesbrows raised:
I wonder how she found a lawyer to sue the other lawyers. If I were a lawyer, I would run from this woman who has no idea what a divorce is. Who knows what else she is clueless about----but the new lawyer may find out.
Ilsa
(61,675 posts)2. Question: Does having a Judicial Separation
Mean that the parties can remarry other people and not have any further financial responsibility accruing?
liberal N proud
(60,298 posts)3. Ignorance on her part does not constitute malpractic on part of the lawyers
not that I am defending lawyers.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)4. "I don't think you know what that word means"