A San Antonio attorney will appeal a $227,000 sanction in which a probate judge found the lawyer and his clients “participated in a fraud upon this court” by lying and filing groundless pleadings in bad faith during a guardianship proceeding involving an elderly, incapacitated millionaire.

The judge then struck the clients’ pleadings with a so-called death-penalty sanction that killed their case.

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