A contingent fee is when an attorney charges dependent upon a successful outcome in the case. It is often agreed to be a percentage of the total recovery to the client. Such fee arrangements are often used in negligence cases and other civil actions but not for criminal defense or divorce actions.
Buckholts is a town in Milam County, Texas, United States. The population was 387 at the 2000 census. The town was founded in 1887 and had a movie theater and a hospital in the early twenties with a population of about a thousand people.