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7-Family Conflicts

20-Government Official Conflicts

A wife who practices law with her husband is a member of the County Board of Zoning Appeals. The relationship should be disclosed to the husband's clients and the wife should disqualify herself if her husband's clients are before the Board. [This LEO was overruled by LEO 1718.]

Copyright 2000, Thomas E. Spahn