Originally Posted by
dukestheheat
DA (scuba chick),
ok.
so, we chose to use a lawyer familiar with our family (a dubious association, actually...he wasn't too popular) to do some work on my mother's estate when she died. he had known my mother for many years and apparently, had represented her in a number of cases (she was very eccentric). the dude took his sweet time in working up the documents and by the time he submitted his 'bill' for services rendered, HE GOT MORE OUT OF THE ESTATE THAN ANYONE ELSE DID, by two decimal places. He knew the balance of my mother's estate, and his fee, when he rendered it, took the balance of the estate down to $8.20. In fact, he earned many thousands of dollars in 'hours' and me, my brother and my sister got $332.00 apiece. And, the three heirs (me, bro, sis) got THAT because I had a yard sale, made about a grand and split it three ways.
while i was a total gentleman to him and the departure was professional, i still have a very bad taste in my mouth about his charges, his attitude in 'the hours' spent just writing up the documents (it wasn't complex at all but he took months to finish it up), and the last straw was the realization that in order for me and my siblings to realize some meager sum from this whole deal, I'd have to have a yard sale.
thank you for allowing me to share that story.
dth.