Medoff

This is a proceeding to review a recommendation of the Disciplinary Board of the State Bar of California that petitioner be suspended from the practice of law in this state for a period of six months as a result of his having prepared and filed in each of two divorce matters (being handled by him for the same client) an order to show cause and wife’s declaration form, 1 knowing that his client’s answer to question 10 in each declaration (i.e., that she had *537 not arranged to pay petitioner’s fee and her court costs and had not paid any part of the fee) was false.

Petitioner was charged in three counts with professional misconduct in (1) violating his oath and duties as an attorney within the meaning of sections 6103 and 6128 of the Business and Professions Code and (2) committing acts involving moral turpitude and dishonesty within the meaning- of section 6106 of the Business and Professions Code. The first two counts relate to the false answers given to question 10 of the wife’s declaration filed in each of the two divorce actions. In-the third count, petitioner was charged, in effect, with having instructed his client and her mother to testify falsely in court regarding the…