Q: The lawyer for my dads estate is in the hospital ICU. Executor says the case can not be assumed by another lawyer?
My brother and sister are the executors for my fathers date.. They elected to pay a lawyer because they were asked questions about the finances. It’s been over a year and no final accounting and they continue to file extensions. Now the lawyer is ill in the ICU and brother says they can not- according to the SC bar turn the case over to another lawyer. Is this true?
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A: I am not licensed in SC, but I am licensed in six other states, and that would not ring true in any of them. If you want to fire your existing, incapacitated attorney and hire a healthy, upright attorney, I believe you can, and you should, of course.
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