Scott Hattrup, a Johnson County attorney and unsuccessful Republican candidate for the Kansas statehouse and for Johnson County District Attorney, is scheduled to go before the Kansas Supreme Court next Friday to try to stop his law license from being temporarily suspended.
On August 21, Hattrup was supposed to appear at an ethics hearing before the Office of Disciplinary Administrator,
which hears complaints against lawyers in the state of Kansas. But Hattrup was in the Johnson County jail on civil contempt charges for failing to comply with a divorce decree from April 2008.
Johnson County District Court Judge Kevin P. Moriarty had ordered Hattrup
"to enter into and execute a contract to list
for a sale" a house at 11925 West 92nd Terrace in Lenexa by July 29. He didn't do
it, so he was arrested for contempt.
Hattrup's next hearing before the Disciplinary Administrator is scheduled for November 5 at 9:30 a.m. Hattrup faces three complaints against him: Two filed by
Lisa Daniels and one by former Kansas lawmaker Patricia Kilpatrick.
In July 2008, Hattrup appeared before the disciplinary administrator to
answer an ethics complaint by Daniels, who alleges in her complaint that Hattrup didn't complete
paperwork
so she never received child support payments. She also claims that she
gave Hattrup all of her husband's guns, but Hattrup never gave her a
receipt for the guns. She claims Hattrup didn't return all of their
property, and they had to file a police report with the Overland Park
Police Department.
The complaint filed by the disciplinary administrator's office says
Hattrup never responded to the complaint.
Daniels' second complaint against Hattrup was filed in June 2007 for
representing another man in small-claims court against her husband, Rob
Daniels. Daniels claims Hattrup had a conflict of interest due to
duties to her as a former client.
In
a complaint filed with the disciplinary administrator in May 2008,
Kilpatrick claims that Hattrup pursued her romantically, even showing up
at her home uninvited at late hours (she
wasn't interested) while representing her in a case before the Kansas
Governmental Ethics Commission. Kilpatrick claims Hattrup agreed to a
$45,000 fine without her knowledge.
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