Are there any great legal minds on here...just got screwed by my lawyer cousin..

You better Call Saul.

Just kick his ass?

He's a she, and my nemesis.

Damn

My cousin is a lawyer...

tell us what happened.

Just kick her ass?

lol the fact you said nemesis made me laugh so hard..lol

Nemesis?
What is this a TV show?

She truly sucks!

She's one of the executors on a will. There is a trust listing all the people my aunt left her assets to. My two cousins, her brother, liquidated everything my aunt had (Myself and two siblings were raised by her, and she adopted three selfish greedy assholes) left to all of us. The three properties they let go to hell, never put one penny into the properties and they are now worthless. The guy lives right next door and couldn't bother taking care of the house.

The first accounting was written on something a little larger than a post it note and a check for $4,900. I hired a lawyer.

They wrapped the money up in a nice little package for themselves. The accounting they put forth was full of lies including a forged document saying she loaned him $15k the day before she died. I WAS THERE, it never happened.

I flew in to town to surprise her for her 90th birthday. She was in bed with a black foot! Crying! I put her in the hospital when I got there but she was dead in four days.

I have an email stating they were going to add us as beneficiaries back in 2010, and they needed our s/s numbers. I have another email after she died saying there was cash, investments and life insurance and installments would be coming as they closed things out. Three years later, $7k in lawyers fees I have received $4,900.

I need to find someone smart enough to legally turn the tables on this slime ball.

Sorry for the jumbled thoughts.

Happy to give you a chuckle..

Does yours suck?

if it helps my family and I got screwed hard too.

Well, if you're in New York, New Jersey of Connecticut, I recommend the law firm:
SCHLAM, STONE & DOLAN, LLP
26 Broadway - 19th Fl
New York, NY 10004
212-344-5400

Four of the attorneys I would recommend are:
Richard Dolan (Partner)
Harvey Stone (Partner)
Elizabeth Wolstein (Partner)
Ronald Russo (Of Counsel)

They are a tremendously good law firm that really, truly cares. They are extraordinarily good at the law and will take very good care of you.

The estates in Ohio.

Is his name Vinney?

You should've just taken the $4900 and stfu.

You are going up against a lawyer? For a measly couple grand?

Your already in the hole a few thousand NOW. And your gonna make it worse?

Plus the stress on your heart and health. People have strokes and heart attacks over this shit.

Just drop this whole bullshit and walk away NOW.

Or you'll be crying on here in a year, now 45k in debt and had a stroke.

Hire a Jewish lawyer.

They will take care of business.

Let it go. This sort of shit never ends well.

Brule's Rules: Your cousin is a lawyer, become a dentist then give her laughing gas and write loser on her head with a Sharpie! Ya Dingus!

Last Edited by DocBrule on 12/12/2015 07:43 PM

You are right about letting it go. I'm just tired of the assholes getting ahead by dirty deeds.

I never said a couple of grand....you just made that up. I do plan on walking away but would like to kick her in the gut before I do.

Sorry it happened to you too.

Feed her something that will give her cancer.

Waste of time, based on what you described you have 0 grounds.

Sounds like you never provided the SS numbers and got the paper work done.

If that'd the case your only option to fuck them is burn the shit houses down and force them to pay thousands in clean up fees after you send in multiple complaints to the city about the mess.

Use the energy of the irritation to create a new window for yourself.

sounds like chicken feed petty crapola

just walk away

They are the executors and he was POA so, they were supposed to do it. Being she is a lawyer and was advised by two financial guys on how to handle the trust.....they were the ones who had to do it. All in her words, in an email to seven people. No grounds...not so sure. BTW we all gave our s/s #'s. And one property is in a ritzy village and the property is on the river. Cousin lives right next door and told me once he considered it abandon property. He's a class A jackass.

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she loaned him $15k the day before she died.

Loans need to be paid back to the estate even though the lender died.

The three properties they let go to hell, never put one penny into the properties and they are now worthless.

The land those properties sit on is worth money! Even if the structure is a tear down. Get the land alone appraised.


The first accounting was written on something a little larger than a post it note

Challenge that accounting legally.


I have an email stating they were going to add us as beneficiaries back in 2010, and they needed our s/s numbers. I have another email after she died saying there was cash, investments and life insurance and installments would be coming as they closed things out.

Find the attorney she had her will/trust with and call him/her. You have every right to have that attorney read & explain it to you (as an interested party). Numbers of life ins. policies will be listed on the will/trust.

Keep in mind, she might have had very little & this might cost you mmore than you make back.

I would begin by sending a CERTIFIED letter to filthy bastards asking for 3 things. The attorneys name & address...The appraisers name and address...and if they have a more detailed papers of the appraisal.

That certified letter is how it's all going to begin with or without an attourney so you might as well do that yourself.

Entertaining read OP, spin us another yarn why dotcha. Sure is a nice day outside, go enjoy yourself. Lucky you live....

Thank you for solid advice. He is paying back the "loan" but honestly how do we know how much he took. He only revealed this after I got a lawyer. He also kicked back in an investment worth $10k he said he "just found" but when I forced new accounting they had put that investment thru probate like eight months before, yet another lie. The properties are all selling/sold but way less then they should have, one property had mold to the ceiling before they checked on it. It was their summer home, pipe burst. The property had been in my family for generations, I told them not to sell it until they talked to me (insurance company was still involved, working out demo costs), next thing I know they sold it for $9k after paying off demo costs.


Also, the original lawyer was trying to settle the estate, he was a friend of my uncle's (attorney too), the guy was so old. I think he quit because my cousin wouldn't do anything he suggested and was just an all around pain in the ass to work with.