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DIMEFF v. ESTATE OF COWAN

No. S-14060.

300 P.3d 1 (2013)

Suzanne C. DIMEFF and the Oleta Cowan Trust, Appellants, v. ESTATE OF Robert Merle COWAN and Dale Dolifka, Personal Representative of the Estate of Robert Cowan, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

May 3, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Suzanne C. Etpison , Dimeff Law Office LLP, Rancho Santa Fe, California, and Suzelle M. Smith and Don Howarth , Howarth & Smith, Los Angeles, California, for Appellants.

Michael W. Flanigan , Flanigan & Bataille, Anchorage, for Appellees.

Before: CARPENETI, Chief Justice, FABE, WINFREE, and STOWERS, Justices.

OPINION

WINFREE, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

This case involves a dispute over the disposition of a deceased Alaska attorney's interest in attorney's fees from his participation, through a joint venture, in the Exxon Valdez oil spill litigation. The attorney's sister, individually and on behalf of their mother's trust, asserted claims to the attorney's fees, and the attorney's estate opposed those claims. The parties settled the dispute by...

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