People v. Thai Soo Kim. 21PDJ089. July 21, 2022.
The Presiding Disciplinary Judge approved the parties’ stipulation to discipline and suspended Thai Soo Kim (attorney registration number 36086) for one year and one day, subject to the possibility of early reinstatement. The suspension took effect on July 21, 2022.
Following dissolution of Kim’s marriage, the domestic relations court entered final support orders requiring Kim to pay $1,086.00 per month in child support to his former spouse, beginning February 1, 2020. On May 7, 2020, Kim’s former spouse moved to hold him in contempt, alleging that at the time of filing he had made only one $500.00 payment toward child support and that he was $3,844.00 in arrears. At the contempt hearing in October 2020, the district court found that Kim willfully failed to comply with the support order. The court ordered Kim to continue to pay monthly child support as well as $892.00 per month for a period of twelve months and another $5,000.00 in attorney’s fees and costs. But between February 1, 2020, and November 12, 2021, Respondent did not make any full payments toward child support and only made partial payments for nine months.
Through this conduct, Kim violated Colo. RPC 3.4(c) (a lawyer shall not knowingly disobey an obligation under the rules of a tribunal).
The case file is public per C.R.C.P. 242.41(a).