Q: Is it legal for my father's probate lawyer, to conspire with the people I hired him to remove, also coerce my sibling?
I walked my probate attorney's office explained to him that I had evidence that the Administrator of my father's estate had a fraudulent credit card in my mother's name. That her and her lawyer where trying to steal most of my inheritance. I handed him $7500, requesting him to have them removed. Then he said he wanted to try to make a deal with them. Hesitantly We (my sister, nephew and I) agreed to let him try to ease them out rather then do it the hard way. So he tried to make deals and even assist them in correctly screwing us for 4 months. Finally after Her attorney refused to take his advice nor any deal. He used evidence I had given him to file for their removal. Petition for fraud, misconduct, requesting Damages for canceling insurance before the fire and stealing estate funds to pay her bills. Except on the day of the hearing. My lawyer secretly allowed them to step down asking for a new docket# so he got paid twice. also allowed them to refile, so we have to pay his fee again
A:
much more info is needed.
it sounds like you are asking a probate question on a criminal site and most of us do not know probate law.
just because you hire a lawyer doesn't mean you will get 100% of what you want...
remember the other side did the same thing.
there are times when a case has to be retried/revisited and the client is stuck with the costs for that new proceeding........with most lawyers.
either make an appointment with your lawyer for an explanation or make an appointment with a local lawyer to review.
with any kind of case, $7,500 would not be enough for litigation. I bill at $7500 per hour and that would include 10 hours which is not much.
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