SAVATTERE v. SUBIN ASSOCIATES, P. C.


261 A.D.2d 236 (1999)

690 N.Y.S.2d 229

PHILIP SAVATTERE et al., Respondents, v. SUBIN ASSOCIATES, P. C., et al., Appellants.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

Decided May 18, 1999.


A cause of action for legal malpractice is stated by plaintiffs' allegations that they retained defendants to represent them in a paternity proceeding in which their deceased son was named as the putative father, and that defendants failed to raise various viable defenses in that proceeding, including res judicata, resulting in plaintiffs' loss of inheritance rights in the estate of their son, who died intestate. The denial of plaintiffs' motion in the paternity proceeding...

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