Stuart

INTRODUCTION

Appellants, Katherine Stuart, the Stuart Family Trust, and Marshall Stuart Properties, LLC, appeal from a judgment entered against them after the trial court found they had failed to meet their burden of proof as to attorney malpractice and financial elder abuse. In essence, they contend the trial court listened to all the evidence and came to the wrong conclusions. We do not reweigh evidence. If substantial evidence supports the judgment, we must affirm it. And appellants failed to preserve some of the issues they have now raised on appeal, by not properly drawing the trial court’s attention to them, so we can’t consider them. We therefore affirm the judgment in favor of attorney James McCormick and his law firm, Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis.

FACTS

Although the appellants are Katherine Stuart, the Stuart Family Trust (the Trust), and Marshall Stuart Properties, LLC, the central figure in this case is Marshall Stuart, Katherine’s husband. During the crucial time period in 2007, Stuart was making the decisions for the Trust and for the limited liability company. He was then 84 years old. In 2007, Stuart sold property owned by the Trust and wanted to…