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BORDEN v. BORDEN

No. 5417.

277 A.2d 89 (1971)

Helen BORDEN, Appellant, v. George BORDEN and Mary Theresa Hawkins, Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 5, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joel J. Rabin, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

No appearance was entered for appellees.

Allan Ashman and John M. Joyce, Washington, D. C., counsel for National Legal Aid and Defender Association, filed a brief as amicus curiae.

Sherman L. Cohn, Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for National Legal Aid and Defender Association and filed an amicus curiae brief as counsel for the Federal Bar Association's National Committee on Legal Assistance to the Poor.

Terry F. Lenzner, Jason I. Newman and Benjamin Stein, counsel for the Office of Economic Opportunity, filed a brief as amicus curiae.

Before KERN, GALLAGHER and NEBEKER, Associate Judges.

KERN, Associate Judge:

The issue presented by this appeal is whether it was error for the trial judge sitting in the Domestic Relations Branch of the District of Columbia Court of General Sessions to refuse to vacate his order assigning an attorney employed by the Neighborhood Legal Services Program (NLSP) to represent the defendant in this action, when the plaintiff was already represented by an NLSP lawyer.

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