A.C. No. 9872

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• respondent signed a retainer agreement with Presbitero to follow up the release of the payment for the latter’s 2.7-hectare property located in Bacolod which was the subject of a Voluntary Offer to Sell (VOS) to the Department of Agrarian Reform

• agreement also included the payment of the debts of Presbitero’s late husband to the Philippine National Bank

• sale of the retained areas of the property, and the collection of the rentals due for the retained areas from their occupants

• DAR was supposed to pay ₱700,000 for the property but it was mortgaged by Presbitero and her late husband to PNB for ₱1,200,000

• Presbitero alleged that PNB’s claim had already prescribed, and she engaged the services of respondent to represent her in the matter. Respondent proposed the filing of a case for quieting of title against PNB

• Respondent and Presbitero agreed to an attorney’s fee of 10% of the proceeds from the VOS or the sale of the property, with the expenses to be advanced by Presbitero but deductible from respondent’s fees. Respondent received ₱50,000 from Presbitero, supposedly for the expenses of the case, but nothing came out of it.

• Presbitero’s daughter, Ma. Theresa P. Yulo (Yulo), also engaged respondent’s services to handle the registration of her 18.85-hectare lot located in Nasud-ong, Caradio-an, Himamaylan, Negros

• convinced her sister, Navarro, to finance the expenses for the registration of the property. Respondent undertook to register the property in consideration of 30% of the value of the property once it is registered. Respondent obtained ₱200,000 from Navarro for the registration expenses. Navarro later learned that the registration decree over the property was already issued in the name of one Teodoro Yulo