Jones v. Blume, 196 S.W.3d 440 (Tex. App.—Dallas 2006, pet. denied).
Several attorneys entered into a fee sharing agreement and after a
settlement was reached, litigated the amounts to which each was
entitled. One of the attorneys claimed that a trust relationship existed
between himself and one of the other attorneys. Both the trial and
appellate courts rejected this claim. The appellate court explained that
the record contained no evidence that the parties intended to create a
trust with respect to the settlement proceeds and without trust intent,
no trust exists. Trust Code § 112.002.
Moral: Courts are unwilling to transform non-trust relationships into
trust relationships.