2A:13-6 - Recovery of fees and disbursements - New Jersey Statutes

2A:13-6.  Recovery of fees and disbursements    Every attorney and counsellor may commence and maintain an action for the recovery of reasonable fees, charges or disbursements against his client or his  legal representative, provided he shall have first delivered to the client or  his legal representative or left for him at his dwelling house or usual place  of abode with some competent member of his family of the age of 14 years or  over then residing therein, a copy of his bill of fees, charges and  disbursements or shall forward a copy of same, by certified or registered mail,  in a sealed envelope with proper postage prepaid and return receipt requested,  to the client or his legal representative at his last known address.

L.1951 (1st SS), c.344;  amended by L.1963, c. 133, s. 1, eff. July 2, 1963.