KENNEDY v. ELDRIDGE

No. C066697.

201 Cal.App.4th 1197 (2011)

KAYLA JEAN KENNEDY, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. TYLER SCOTT ELDRIDGE, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District, Sacramento.

December 13, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Eldridge for Defendant and Appellant.

No appearance for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

BUTZ, J.

In a roiling support and custody dispute involving an infant child, did the trial court act within its discretion in disqualifying the child's paternal grandfather from representing his son, the father, against the mother of his grandson?

We hold that it did. A plethora of family entanglements, potential misuse of confidential information, a conflict posed by the near-certain prospect that counsel will have to...

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