In a series of hearings held more than two years ago, a District of Columbia attorney disciplinary hearing committee delved into the messy affairs of the Ackerman family.

Genevieve Ackerman, who died in February at age 94, had two children pitted against one another in a bitter fight over managing their mother’s assets. Ackerman’s daughter, Mary Frances Abbott, lodged ethics complaints against four Washington-area lawyers who had represented Ackerman and, in some instances, her son, Stephen Ackerman Jr., over the past decade.

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