The Pennsylvania Superior Court has affirmed a lower court’s denial of a wife’s motion to disqualify her husband’s attorney from their divorce proceedings, determining the wife failed to prove her brief meeting with the attorney years prior had created a conflict of interest.

In an Aug. 22 opinion, authored by Judge Judith Ference Olson, the court affirmed the order denying Tracy A. Cunningham’s motion to disqualify counsel for her husband Michael Spinneweber. Cunningham had alleged that her 2014 consultation with the attorney, Jill Sinatra, about potentially divorcing Spinneweber had created a conflict of interest in the current case. But the appeals court said Cunningham failed to show Sinatra acquired any significantly harmful information during that consultation.

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