Re: Ethical conduct

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I just want to add one thing.
You admit that you called the attorney's office frequently. Do
you not know that every time you called, that the attorney
billed against the estate for that call? I have seen people
rack up thousands of dollars in attorney's fees from frequent
and lengthy phone calls demanding that every little thing be
explained to them and asking some of the simplest questions
over and over. I can see how the others could get upset at you
for doing this.

On 2/19/05, sharwinston wrote:
> well.... whose lawyer was he?
> The Executor's lawyer?
> Sisters' lawyer?
> Brothers' lawyer?
> Your lawyer?
>
> If your complaint is that you were not served with all papers,
> you can be sure the probate judge would not have entered
> orders until proof of service on all beneficiaries was in the
> file as to the papers that were required to be served on you.
> Not all papers are required to be served on all
> beneficiaries. Likewise, there would have been no approval
> for final disbursement until there was proof of service in the
> file.
>
> At any rate, you can get a copy of the court's probate file
> anytime, and that includes the accountings that were filed.
> You have the court's address. You can contact them for
> information on copies of docs that are in the file.
>
> My$0.02: Yours is not an "ethics" question. And, even if it
> were, I see nothing unethical about what the "probate lawyer"
> said.
>
> On 2/18/05, Oly wrote:
>> I would like to find out if in our recent probate court
>> case if the probate lawyer was right in telling my sisters
>> and brother that if it were him to team up all against
>> me!? You see i am the the youngest of five, i also live
>> the furthest away. Anytime i recieved any kind of court
>> paperwork that i did not understand i would call his office
>> up and ask, although i never really spoke to him personally
>> i sure made myself heard, and because of that i feel that,
>> that is the reason i did not recieve any of the most
>> important paperwork such as court dated documents, and time
>> filing responses. Although final dispersment of all funds
>> have been distributed i still have not recieved the full
>> accounting court doc's which i know for a fact the others
>> got. I just want to know that being a heir to the estate
>> was i legally supposed to be informed on any and all
>> actions that took place? Thank you OLY---CA