Two Shady Probate Attorney Ploys 

I'm still going through probate a year and 1/2 later. Just listening to your videos faithfully. It rang up huge amounts of probate charges to the lawyer in the midst of the trial my lawyer died and I had to find another one and that was a mess . Yep 95 he was.

Thanks for this. My mother's will is with her lawyer. I have no wish to use him for probate. Both my mother and myself thought he was sleezy.

I think movies are partially responsible for this, too. The classic lawyer reading the will to the family in an office scene!

Thanks for the clarification. This is what happened in my father's case. His will was held at the lawyer's. When I went to retrieve it the paralegal sat me down and outlined their fee to probate the will. I told her that I planned to try doing it myself as I had a kit with all the forms and procedures. She said she was aware of someone who had tried but wasn't sure how it had turned out--possibly hoping I would conclude not that well. I went ahead anyway. It worked out and I learned a lot in the process.

Your videos have been so valuable in assisting me navigate through the probate system...

They know...an GOD KNOWS,EXPOSING THEM ALL,DISHONESTY HAS NO PLACE WORKING IN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM

TY. As I've been watching all ur videos, I questioned why our attorney hadn't suggested a trust & did the will we requested. It makes much more sense now that he said it was customary for his clients to leave the original w him for safekeeping. More people need to be educated.

My siblings and I lost our dad and stepmom and her family is claiming ownership to everything. It’s a nightmare dealing with them and this whole process. We are also finding out the process doesn’t mean we have rights.

Another one is when the lawyer says "oh, you don't need to avoid probate, it's not that bad in this state, just get a simple will".

Your a good man. Thank you for your honesty & provocative insight❣️

wow.. I know they are out there. They are soo willing to help after they type in that address and see whats available for them! This is why knowledge pays the best INTEREST! Thank you for this content now i know to have my paperwork revised after i read it and ask questions.

I enjoyed watching my cousins do probate for 8 years for the family farm. Oklahoma. It stinks to high heaven.

You are so awesome! I love the way you present your info in such a humble way. Clearly, you are very knowledgeable, and kind, to share your valuable education regarding estates. If you lived in my state, you would…..without a doubt, be my attorney!

This is By Far the Most Informative of all your video's- thank you

Great tips, we have an appt with an estate planning law firm, now we know what to look out for.

Thank you this was a very informative video! I appreciate all you do. Blessings to all in love and light.🙏🏼💜🙏🏼💙🙏🏼🧡🙏🏼💛🙏🏼💚🙏🏼

I appreciate all of your videos.

Thankyou!! Even though I am from australia your videos have been a fantastic starting point.

The lawyer kept the original will and hid it, then colluded with my half brother who forged another one.

I’m battling my custodian of my UTMA account for access since I’m passed the age of majority and I was told by the clerk that the probate court is limited in its capacity. They refused to do my motion for summary judgment. I’m trying to get my case transferred to Civil court but the clerk isn’t returning my calls. They said they’d call back on Thursday and never did. I called and left a message. I also just placed a motion to transfer. I’m appalled how slow the probate courts are. I’ve been going in this a year so far. I heard it takes years. It shouldn’t be like this to get justice from an abusive custodian!

In Maryland, each county has a Register of Wills, which is part of the Orphan's Court and handles probate. The Register of Wills keeps wills on file. I don't know if lawyers are required to file wills with the RoW but it is best to see if your local probate court does the same.

Thank you sr for you time and honesty

What about a lawyer who writes the will appoints themselves in the will as the executor? Is this even legal?

Priceless info !!! Only naive folks would fall for it.................... but, we all are like that, sometimes.

Thank you for these videos. I need info to deal with a family member who died intestate. I learned a lot. Now off to see a lawyer.

A crooked/unethical lawyer, who would have thought????

Thank you .great answer

Thank You for the heads up

I enjoy listening to Mr Balaise, I’ve learned a lot considering I have lawyers that never met with me to show me the steps to probate. Ihad to learn about probate by listening to him

Thank u so much for the info.

This is exactly what’s happening to us!!

Thank you for these videos. Now what can we do with attorneys setting up contention to pressure parties to probate and then game on...they're in the money?

Thanks! You seem like an honest man (for a lawyer) 😉.

Attorneys roll the documents over to the Bar which appoints an attorney or find your own attorney.

I contacted the lawyer that was handling my mom's estate ,,he said he's not actually even a probate attorney and I should call another one and have me his number, so I called the other guy ,,I ended up paying him thousands of dollars and going through a bunch of bullshit for him to tell me three months later that the guy who originally told me to call him already did everything literally paid him over two thousand dollars to do nothing ,,is there any legal action I can take against him because it's obvious they were friends and I got played

Wow, I learn so much from each video. Unfortunately it's in hindsight 2014 to present time. My situation is not common but it could be a 3 part soap opera 😂 I share with many people who need to see it coming and get prepared.

Great video , on point !

I’m dealing with a nightmare executor that used his position to punish me with his power. Now it’s the accounting phase and I can’t sign off the shady stuff continues in that document. What do you do if you want your rightful inheritance but you’re being bullied to sign something shady to get it ? Even threatened that you will pay money for the right to not sign off on it. They said I will be forced into court. Did my mother want this when she drew up her will ???? Definitely NO !!!!!

My attorney said I need to prepare a statutory notice. What is that?

Thankyou for all you do Paul. I have what may be an unusual question and it is this; What if the family of the deceased fails to file in probate for a property being managed by me? I was the renter/manager for a dear friend and she passed a few months ago and the family has shut me out completely. I am still carrying on as I have sense 2017 concerning this home which is in Nevada. I pay ALL bills etc. The deceased's primary home is in Washington State. Thankyou 😢

Your videos are fascinating,

Hey Paul I really appreciate your videos they're so straightforward and they make you feel like you're worth listening to like like you care about the people and you really want us to understand and also I would just like to thank you just now you told me to hit the like button and you explained what hitting the like button does and I all this time I've been hitting the like button for different videos and I did not know what that actually did you said that it tells you to about the video and that to keep showing your videos and I'm like well thank you for clarifying that because I had an idea what it did but I didn't know exactly so obviously you're not just a great attorney you're also a good teacher as well I mean my mother was a teacher so I think I know good teaching she was an excellent teacher and people can either teach her they can't I've learned and you're one of those people who actually cares about people learning is my mother also cared about her students

Great content

i am learning so much from your videos thanks .please anyone ever heard that original will was lost at court waiting for probate almost a year now while me as a executor and beneficiary looking after all expenses and maintenance for smal state. I was told without original will i have no right to anything but i can claim expenses at same place ? Looks very promising

Thank you for this video Thumb Button smashed :)

My problem is not with heirs, its with the attorney who wants to control everything, move the money to his own bank, and has little time to answer questions to keep the executor updated.

Thanks so much for sharing. In every industry are people who can give more of themselves. Equally there are many areas in which there are questionable behaviors. Thanks for being brave and standing in your truth, while arming the general public with the tools necessary to make informed decisions. My plan is to look into my own personal plan of action as well as paying it forward. So Patrick dies the attorney is holding onto the trust documents, does the attorney simply hand it over to wife Becky who is the name on the Trust? Then Becky simply take it to the various entities for disbursement? any help is greatly appreciated.

That part saying the lawyer being the attorney for the personal rep is in my moms will

My aunt’s attorney want us to sign a declination for a invalid will. Why? Could it be they have the original will and that decline letter will apply to all?

What you are saying is true.........and evil !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, I had a cheesy money grabbing lawyer that pressured us HARD to have him hold the will for “safe keeping”. I wasn’t happy with him because he didn’t give full disclosure in stating his fees to write up the Will and POA. He was boarder line angry and gave me a hard time when I said I’m taking the will with me. He reminded me of a great joke. “What happens when you give a lawyer Viagara? He get taller😂”

Yes it's a much better idea to give the original will to Billy Bob for safekeeping. Maybe Billy Bob will put the will with the spare tire for safekeeping. Or better yet, slip it into the headliner of the F-150 where it will be safe and sound, absolutely. Great idea; much better than in the lawyer's safe.

What if only half of the will was brought or shown ?... missing 4 of the last pages of eight, including process of appointing a new trustee

Sounds like I have to hire a lawyer to protect me from another lawyer. Greedy clients and greed from lawyers -- trust no one.

A Trust eh?....didnt think of that ...needs lookin into...thank for that...US almost same as QLD

my uncle has paid thousands of dollars for his will.. now you're telling me the probate is going to cost more!?!?! my lord

"Where there's a Will there's a wage"!!

I dont trust any attorney. Thats exactly what my attorney did to my spouse.

Keep post please

Is there a way of approaching an existing living trust without probate for simple questions no court. The original lawyer that created it won’t help or answer any questions. Example if the trustee was in parents account as a primary account holder since they were teenager and both parents pass away but in living trust that account was not added in living trust . Are you required to split that in living trust when it wasn’t listed in it?questions like this.wish every lawyer was nice and would explain it like this gentleman is doing.

A another ?. My property in holiday lakes in been fined .they say it is not clean enough. We are in the dark about how many fines they are doing .tell the end of the year .tell they give us our po dues. What lawyer do i need to fight them on this.

My husband is the executor of his father's estate that never had a Will. His father owned lots of commercial properties and a couple ranches. There is an attorney in California claiming that he will not use the proceeds from the sale of a ranch to pay off the estate debt UNTIL HE GETS HIS CUT/PAYMENT!!! HUH?! He works for the estate and his job is to write checks to debtors and banks to pay off loans/debt but he wants his cut BEFORE THIS. Please tell me this is not real? Help me to understand what's going on! Thank you!!!!

Hi! .. Quick question, who's the best lawyer in Tennessee?

We have a golden rule in the uk but the solicitors/lawyers don't observe it. Lawyers are sharks when they really don't need to. If they did some actual work we would pay them but they work for No.1. Which is scary when you think of all the things we need them for. Crikes Scoob!!

My ex husband died 16 months ago, leaving everything to our daughter, now 27 but assigning his brother as PR. My daughter was never consulted on any of the estate decisions and she wants to challenge a lot of the charges the estate atty and PRs have made to the estate. To this point, they've taken around 60k (as far as we know because she's never gotten a full accounting). She'd hired two attys - one kept charging her for "asking the estate atty questions" but never coming up with any answers. The second one literally refused to submit any of her questions to either the estate atty or the magistrate. The magistrate told her to get an atty when she tried to ask the questions in court. The estate atty is now saying that if she insists on challenging the charges, it will "take longer" to close the estate. That was a month ago. So far, the estate atty has all of her inheritance and refuses to do anything to move forward. She's literally gving up on a 500k estate because she feels powerless. I don't know how else to help her.

How about when a crooked attorney drafts the wills for a husband convicted of domestic assault, and his wife suffering from Alzheimer's, at the same time? How about when the same attorney copied the section for the bulk of the estate, from the husband's will; bequeathing the bulk of the estate to "my wife. Should she not survive me, to my daughter..."(the wife never had any wife or daughter, but the husband had a daughter from a previous marriage). How about when the challenger of the will brings up the wife's inability to understand that she had no wife or daughter, when reading the will to sign it, and the attorney who wrote the will, and employed those who witnessed the signatures, blurts out under penalty of perjury (yes, she was sworn in as a witness, even though she was also advocating the case) that her client was of sound mind, she just did NOT read the will that she signed? How hard is it to get someone so crooked and incompetent disbarred?

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Heirs not told that aunt and uncle are usufruct on late parents' open Spanish Wills (all non-Spanish residents). How can heirs challenge this?

If you put everything into a Living Trust... how is the trustee not have even less oversight than an Executor would in Probate? Sounds like a double-edged sword...

Someone I know lost her brothers and there lawyer is asking for a lot of money and the judge is agreeing with there lawyer is that even lawful to grant a lawyer so much money ..his clients are dead shouldn’t the debt due with the client ..

I been trying to find a video on Lawyers named as Trust Protectors vs. Co-Trustee. The Lawyer I have said he normally writes it up as he is the "Co-Trustee" not "Trust Protector", is this normal or should I request he writes it as he is only the "Trust Protector" ?

I haave recently found out that if I die in the state of Vriginia, the executor musst be a resident of Virginia or cannot act as teh executor. Is that true...

Is there any thing preventing attorneys causing glitches in the process to charge more to the claimants. Im getting to many mabes or cant answer thats from my attorneys

I made a new will plus I moved

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What if deceased person didn't leave a will??

My wife was awarded 57% of her mother's property. And we are being told we are getting evicted and it's getting sold. Is this legal?

At least the will is in safekeeping. I hoped my mother’s original estate attorney kept her will because we need to show previous will after some stranger talked her into naming her the sole beneficiary in a new will

I need help. It's been almost 3 years and still the lawyer is still holding my inheritance

Yes shhhh

A lawyer dies and goes up to heaven. When he gets there. there's a queue - miles long waiting to see St Peter. He joins the queue and then a sedan chair supported by 4 angels turns up. They motion him inside and whisk him to the front. He days to St Peter - "This is really nice, but why all this just for me?" St Peter says - "I've just checked how many hours you've billed and by my reckoning you must be at least 135 years old". The lawyer says - "I made a lot of money but I made sure my wife and kids will be OK because I set up trust funds for them". St Peter says - "OK, go through those Pearly Gates". The next guy in line hears this and says to St Peter - "I was a stockbroker and I made a lot of money, but I I didn't keep it all for myself - I gave 4 million to charity". St Peter says - "OK, go through those Pearly Gates". The next guy comes up and says - "I was a musician and I only made $10,000 in my whole life". St Peter says - "OK, go round the back, through the kitchen and up the stairs".

My deceased moms atty made himself co-executor, how is this

Thresa Varnet left the practice so now the money is wasted for her

I KNOW YOU ARE IN LOUISIANA BUT WHATIS HAPPENING TO US IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU SAID IN THIS VIDEO. I am willing to pay anyone for advice without any responsibilities. To Whom it may concern, This is URGENT; WE NEED HELP. What do I do if a lawyer not only kept a will and didn't give it to anyone else? She has held on to the choice and held it for seven months now. According to the State Bar, this lawyer is mainly doing everything unethical. The lawyer still has not submitted the will to probate. The lawyer tried getting my sibling and me to sign a waiver of consent she mailed to each of us. My siblings and I had no idea what this even meant, and luckily none of the siblings signed it because we were made aware of the lawyer's deception almost too late. Nowhere did it say if we signed this waiver of consent that, we would have given up our rights to contest the will. It appeared if we signed, it was a good thing on my siblings and my part. Approximately six months later, we each received a citation to appear in court in NY, giving us less than a month. We are all in different states across the other side of the US. We do not have the finances to fly, much less hire an attorney. A judge informed me that the things this lawyer is doing are unethical. DIFFERENT states react in different ways but I definitely should contact the district attorney's office to see if you can be of help because what is going on is usually not the typical practice of an upstanding, ethical and reputable estate lawyer. The lawyer will not answer any emails or calls either. We cannot afford an attorney. Our mother suffered from bipolar and out of nowhere, our mother up and left where she lived for years to move to NY, where she ended up injured and alone with the promise from a nephew he would be there for her if she moved. Somehow he got her to make a codicil/new will. She made a will in 2017; it was on her computer before she moved to NY. The things this lawyer is doing are, in most other lawyers and courts' eyes, VERY SHADY. CAN THIS LAWYER GET AWAY WITH NOT ONLY BEING THE ONE WHO DRAFTED THE WILL BUT KEPT THE WILL AND MADE HERSELF THE INTENDED EXECUTOR'S LAWYER, WHO ALSO CONVENIENTLY ALSO BECAME THE SOLE BENEFICIARY TO EVERYTHING OUR MOTHER OWNS. Please- I have to speak to the judge next week, I am contesting, but I am helpless. I cannot afford an attorney. I was recently put on a kidney and pancreas transplant list as we speak and just had surgery because my vocal cords were paralyzed and I was suffocating, so they had to cut my voice box, and I lost much of my ability to speak. This all has happened to me in the past few months. What are my options, and can this lawyer get away with this unethical behavior?? Thank you very much. Jane 714-814-6218 Please TEXT if you can help. If you can call me, please text first so someone can speak for me. I only have a few days. To move from compulsiveness to choice is evolutionary. But to move from choice to choicelessness is revolutionary. By: Sadguru Make Everyday A Peachie Day with- Peachie News USA🍑 424-332-7968 (AKA: MIRA CAIPORA) PeachieNewsUSA.com (PLEASE NOTE: website under construction) Thank you for your patience, consideration, understanding, and support

I went to court yesterday my Mom has a collector car worth alot well my sister has a friend who's a lawyer we tried stopping my sister from selling the car we want the car sold just not by her. She wants storage fee's because she stored it in het garage there's gonna be a appraisal fee and on and on everything will turn out favorable for my sister. The judge would not even let us say anything it was a joke we don't have the money to hire a lawyer my sister's friend isn't charging her anything. The will say's the car was to be sold and money go to the grandchildren which that won't happen. Is there anything that can be done we will have no clue about ANYTHING!

All lawyers lie i was told So true

What about an attorney that wrote the will appoints himself as the attorney to handle the probate, and the executor, and the trustee? Now this attorney also wants to handle the farm management for a trust (which was included in the will)?!.

If my father had a guardian ad litem and his guardian and heir are the only ones to inherit from my dad. Contesting the will now.

My Uncle passed away late last year (2022) His partner is selling his property even though I don’t think it’s gone through probate. We cannot find the probate in the public domain. My uncle’s partner stands to benefit everything from this sale of the house. I’m not sure she has the legal right to sell the house. I would like to buy my uncle’s house but she will not sell it to me, she has accepted an offer on the property from someone else but I think she should be stopped as she does not have the legal right to sell the property. Can anyone offer any advice?

What if the original is missing but there are uncertified copies?

Suspicious? 2weeks prior to death will had been changed

It was produced the court destroyed the will

Yup thats what my husband did. Attorney is a total ass delaying filing documents..

If my will is simple, my house, my car, my bank money, nothing more, and my son is the benefactor of the will, why would he need a lawyer in probate court? The judge can easily see that my house and property goes to my son.

So, where should you keep the original will?

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The estate attorney and closing attorney on my mom's house selling after she passed away did not think I was Nancy coniff Leonard Cardwell s son she and Jerry d cardwell and Nancy coniff Leonard Cardwell adopted from NC in 1975 Robeson county NC. The executor and power of attorney over the estate closed her estate illegally too like they closed jerry d cardwell s estate illegally in 1987.

Sorry mr Rabalais. My mistake

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