Lawyer trouble.

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jasonzee

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I am at my wit end with this lawyer! Long story short this is a easy probate case,started on 6/4/19 I dont understand why it took this guy till the end of Oct. To send it to the court. My mother didnt have multi bank accounts or own land or have over sea accounts almost 5 months seem long. He also doesn't return my phone calls or text messages I send he gives me no hop this will ever get done!!!!!.
 
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How much money did you give him? In my experience, some will ask for a deposit, say $5,000, and they will run up expenses going through that money without actually accomplishing anything. Phone calls, writing letters, or just whatever they do to eat up time to bill you for. Then when they are almost out of that money, that actually start to do something. If you are lucky, that's when everything gets done, if not, they ask for more money and drag it on even longer. Trying to figure out what they charge you for is harder then figuring out your bill at a hospital!!!
 
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We just finished probate on the mother in laws estate, took about 7 months. When he called us in to finish it up it was apparent that he hadn't even read her will, he missed one of the beneficiaries!

When we braced him about it, he apologized, blamed it on his secretary and said he'd get it straightened out. When he did, he added on to his fee for the extra work.

It took about an hour of argumentation with him to agree that all he had done was to rectify his mistakes and that we weren't going to pay him for mistakes, only results.

I don't often have a need for lawyers, but the next time I do need one, this idiot won't be on my list.

So - there are good lawyers out there and bad ones, looks like we (and you) had the misfortune to get in touch with bad ones.
 
   / Lawyer trouble. #4  
My advice, and I'm not an attorney, nor did I sleep at a holiday inn last night, is to NOT post complaints about an active dispute with a lawyer on public internet forums. If somehow they find it, you think your situation is bad now, just wait.

Good luck with your situation.
 
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I sent him 1k at the start of June he never ask for anymore money. You know I think he is taking me for a ride because I live in Wisconsin and he is in Florida. This has taking way to long .
 
   / Lawyer trouble. #6  
I don’t have personal experience with FL, but they are notoriously known as one of the more difficult and expensive states to probate in. Call him and ask why it took so long. If you don’t like the response, fire him, tell him to return the balance of your retainer, and replace him.
 
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It took my dad and aunt about 11 months to work through all the details and get the family farm through probate. Part of the delay was my dad was purchasing my aunt's half of the farm.
 
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I don稚 have personal experience with FL, but they are notoriously known as one of the more difficult and expensive states to probate in. Call him and ask why it took so long. If you don稚 like the response, fire him, tell him to return the balance of your retainer, and replace him.

Fl. Has backwards laws! And your right they make you spend more money then needed. I cant get him to give me a answer.
 
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My advice, and I'm not an attorney, nor did I sleep at a holiday inn last night, is to NOT post complaints about an active dispute with a lawyer on public internet forums. If somehow they find it, you think your situation is bad now, just wait.

Good luck with your situation.

I'm not going to worry about that now. This guy is so ineptitude he cant even find his way out of a wet paper bag!.
 
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Fl. Has backwards laws! And your right they make you spend more money then needed. I cant get him to give me a answer.

That’s unacceptable. Lawyers have an ethical duty to communicate with their client. Find a new lawyer. (And I am in the profession...Have little tolerance for lawyers that disparage the rest of us through incompetence).
 

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