A Western Pennsylvania lawyer may collect more than $40,000 in attorney fees after a panel of the state Superior Court affirmed that his former client, along with her ex-husband, attempted to defraud him.
The unanimous panel held that Westmoreland County attorney Ronald L. Chicka was due the fees, and interest, for his involvement in the “protracted and complicated” child support proceedings of Angelique S. Kraisinger and Paul James Kraisinger. In the case, the couple entered into a marriage settlement agreement pro se in 2002, and then twice revised it without the assistance of counsel.
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