Lindsay Meador Young

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Director

  Firm Name

  Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Matters: Obtained primary custody for a father of his teenage son despite more than two prior attempts by others to do so.
  Obtained ex parte temporary custody for a mother of her minor children
  , ultimately, sole custody.
  Aided a client with a partition of community property, saving more than $300,000.
  Resolved a child custody
  support case between parents so that they could continue to co-parent.
  Finalized the intra-family adoption of a minor child to a step-parent.
  Negotiated a high-conflict custody, support,
  property case to a satisfactory resolution for the client.
  Established a right-of-passage in favor of an enclosed estate, while in the same action reforming a cash sale to remove the cloud on a title related to the same estate.
  Obtained summary judgement in an action to reform an act of sale wherein the incorrect party was named as the seller, creating a defect in the title that ultimately reduced the lender's interest in the property.
  Successfully defended a client against a property owner's petition for injunctive relief using only oral argument.
  Obtained summary judgment on behalf of a major site engineering firm, wherein the plaintiffs alleged that the engineers failed to provide a proper groundwater analysis during the construction of their home.
  Obtained summary judgment in favor of a commercial property owner when his title was at issue due to a defective tax sale. The judgment was based on the defendant's tacit ratification of the subsequent sales
  cleared title to his property, allowing it to be put back in commerce.
  Successfully defended an insurer against the holder of an owner's policy who brought wrongful claims for defense
  indemnity based on a boundary line dispute. Summary judgment was granted in favor of the insurer after Galloway accurately defined
  argued that the survey exception, a commonly used Schedule B exception, excluded coverage for the claims.
  Secured a jury verdict for a defendant insured despite extensive medical treatment by the plaintiff
  less than favorable liability facts.
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