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- Title: In re Marriage of Etcheverry
- Author : Colorado Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 27, 1996
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 52 KB
Description
Cindi L. Etcheverry (wife) appeals from the order foreclosing the attorney lien of her former attorney, Catherine Burkey (attorney), and requiring all child support payments made by Leslie J. Pratt (husband) to be forwarded to the attorney until the lien is satisfied. Because we conclude that public policy prohibits an attorney's charging lien from attaching to child support payments, we reverse. The attorney represented wife in a dissolution of marriage proceeding, and husband was ordered to pay wife, through the court registry, $268 per month for child support and $300 per month for maintenance. When wife did not pay the $3740 in attorney fees owed at the Conclusion of the proceedings, the attorney filed a notice of attorney lien claim and a motion to foreclose the lien. The trial court granted the motion and ordered that the child support payments were to be redirected to the attorney until the lien claim was paid in full.