Gordon

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Attorney Gordon represented Marta Rodriquez in her dissolution action from Reynaldo Rodriguez beginning in 2004. Reynaldo secretly diverted community property assets to his mother Raquel Ventura. Marta joined Raquel in the dissolution proceedings as a claimant. Raquel gave false testimony about the diversion, perpetuating a fraud upon the court and Marta. On June 12, 2007, the family law court issued a pendente lite order against Reynaldo and Raquel jointly to pay Marta’s attorney fees of $25,000 directly to Gordon. Marta filed a motion for additional attorney fees and sanctions scheduled to be heard on May 11, 2009. On May 5, 2009, the family law court continued the motion. Four days later, on May 9, 2009, Raquel purchased a condominium unit in Sylmar. She

1 Parties and participants in the underlying proceedings who share the same last name will be referred to individually by their first names for ease of reference.

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2 executed a promissory note in the amount of $77,350 and gave a deed of trust to the lender. That same day, she executed a grant deed conveying…