Harry M. Fain, a
pioneering family law attorney who helped bring
no-fault divorce to California in 1970 and
handled the high-powered break-ups of such
celebrity marriages as
Elvis Presley,
Cary Grant and Ali McGraw,
died Friday of pneumonia at a skilled nursing
facility in Los Angeles. He was 88.
In his practice, Fain preferred settlement over
litigation. The attorney praised Presley, his
client, when the singer reached an out-of-court
agreement in 1973 to pay his wife, Priscilla,
nearly $1.5 million.
"This man agreed to pay her this without any
contest because he wanted to be generous and
make her happy," Fain said in a 1973 Times
article. "I never met a man so unselfish."
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Posted: 15th. July 2007