Scenario:
Person P1 is dragged into a lawsuit by a vexatious litigant.
P1 meets with an attorney A1 who claims to specialize in "Asset Protection", according to P1. (sidenote: is this really a field of legal specialization?)
A1 devises a scheme to transfer all of P1's assets into a Revocable Separate Property Trust in A1's wife's name (W1), to "protect the assets", before the case involving P1 is eventually brought to closure in P1's favor shortly thereafter.
A couple of years later, W1 and P1 file for divorce, and W1 refuses to return any of P1's assets back to P1, claiming the asset transfer devised by A1 was an outright gift.
Can P1 sue A1 for damages/losses incurred for devising and executing what appears to be a Fraudulent Conveyance?
(The FC should be basic/elementary legal knowledge to any attorney, right?)
Person P1 is dragged into a lawsuit by a vexatious litigant.
P1 meets with an attorney A1 who claims to specialize in "Asset Protection", according to P1. (sidenote: is this really a field of legal specialization?)
A1 devises a scheme to transfer all of P1's assets into a Revocable Separate Property Trust in A1's wife's name (W1), to "protect the assets", before the case involving P1 is eventually brought to closure in P1's favor shortly thereafter.
A couple of years later, W1 and P1 file for divorce, and W1 refuses to return any of P1's assets back to P1, claiming the asset transfer devised by A1 was an outright gift.
Can P1 sue A1 for damages/losses incurred for devising and executing what appears to be a Fraudulent Conveyance?
(The FC should be basic/elementary legal knowledge to any attorney, right?)