Legal Question in Family Law in Massachusetts

legal fees

If the court orders you to pay the legal fees to the plaintiff's attorney, can those fees be transferred to the planitiff without the judge's approval


Asked on 9/19/08, 7:39 pm

2 Answers from Attorneys
Gregory Lee Gregory P. Lee, Attorney at Law

Re: legal fees

An order should be paid as it reads. If the lawyer wants those fees to go to his or her client, he/she can endorse the check appropriately, or he/she can process the funds through a client funds account. This latter process is by no means wrong -- if the attorney has received the fees from the client, the attorney is ethically obligated to refund the amount paid by the client, and later by the defendant who was apparently in the wrong.

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Answered on 9/20/08, 9:07 am
henry lebensbaum Law Offices of Henry Lebensbaum (978-749-3606)

: legal fees

yes

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Answered on 9/19/08, 11:55 pm


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