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If a son pays his mothers attorney fees, is the son or the mother the client?

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ashbee asked:


Is the attorney representing them both? Or just the mother?

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This entry was posted on Monday, April 7th, 2008 at 10:32 pm and is filed under Attorney Fees. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

10 Responses to “If a son pays his mothers attorney fees, is the son or the mother the client?”

  1. No. They don’t care were the money comes from.

  2. they are representing the mother since this is her case

  3. Just the mother.

  4. Not Rep or Dem!! on April 14th, 2008 at 9:29 am

    Don’t you usually have to sign something saying exactly who the atty represents? I mean, anyone can pay them but only certain people can be represented by them.

  5. Certainly just the Mother

  6. It depends on who hired the attorney. If only the mother’s name is on the contract, then just the mother is the client, regardless of who pays the bill.

  7. The attorney represents just the mother, and she has the atty client privilege. She can waive it and allow the atty to speak to the son if she wants to. It doesn’t matter where the money comes from.

  8. The client is the party to the lawsuit. If the son was just paying the bills and was not the plaintiff or respondent in the suit, it’s just the mother. Which means, of course, that the son has no privilege to the attorney’s opinion or anything else private. Pretty much like paying for someone else’s medical treatment.

  9. The client is the person consulting the attorney. If I was to pay your cell phone bill for you this doesn’t make me the phone company’s customer.

    Same applies to the relationship between the person that pays the bill to an attorney. They are just the person paying the bill.

  10. It is the mother who has the attorney.

    The attorney represents the mother only.

    The attorney does not even have to know where his fees come from — as long as he gets paid.

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