GARRETT (FORMERLY MATISA) v. MATISA


927 A.2d 177 (2007)

394 N.J. Super. 468

Lisa GARRETT (FORMERLY Lisa MATISA), Plaintiff, v. Christopher MATISA, Defendant.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division, Family Part, Mercer County.

Decided January 11, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carol Oswald, Trenton, for plaintiff (Teich Groh, attorneys).

Lydia Fabro Keephart, Princeton, for defendant (Pellettieri, Rabstein and Altman, attorneys).


OSTRER, J.S.C.

Plaintiff's attorney's motion to withdraw from representation presents the issue: what must an attorney do to satisfy the duty to notify a client of the intention to withdraw when the client has moved without disclosing a new phone number or address? Neither our courts nor the Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics have addressed the question. Yet, the policy underlying the notice requirement, and persuasive out-of-state authority lead this court...

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