ORTEGA, Acting Presiding Justice.
This appeal involves a California attorney's (defendant) manipulation of different state and foreign adoption notice requirements to help an unmarried and pregnant West Virginia client arrange a private adoption in a jurisdiction that, unlike West Virginia, required no notice to the biological father (plaintiff). Defendant's client sought to keep plaintiff, who had filed a West Virginia paternity action, from locating his newborn...
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