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Yeah, I just happened to wander by. In reading this post the following question arose: If someone sends me a letter I can share that letter with others (as long as I am not gaining commercially by doing so, I suppose). If I received an e-mail, why could I not share that with others in the...

I'll be brief. I'm just wondering some stuff about internet law and how it applies to internet forums (not this one, by the way). Do the forum owners and administrators have an obligation to protect forum users from participants they know to be dangerous and troublesome (insultive...

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The attorney for the Estate is going back to court to ask for permission to file suit against the broker and his brokerage. He is also asking permission to have Special Litigation Counsel appointed. It appears the brokerage has paid the Estate a really small amount, saying that was the...

Re: People behaving badly saga I'm in Missouri. My Dad (and the Estate) are in Iowa. No, no one else has done anything, but that point is moot now. Only the Executor can do anything and the attorney for the Estate works for the Executor. The Executor and the attorney for the Estate...

Re: No formal Executor? To answer your last question first, I have not been "taken" by my family. It is them who suspects I have "taken" them, so I am your brother in their eyes. Truthfully, and frankly, my family members are petty, jealous and insecure. As to Wills, many elderly people...

Well, that's pretty much the way ours was going, only we saw it upfront. We agreed with the attorney for the Estate, at the time of my fathers death, that it would be wise to have the court appoint an Executor rather than attempt to do that ourselves. We were interim administrators for about a...

Re: "people behaving badly" (for JLB) Things have been pretty stagnant over the holidays. My father's stock broker has admitted stealing from him, as the first step in a plea arrangement. The attorney for the estate is dealing with his attorney over the amount. The brokerage has upped...

I feel your pain. I have pretty much the same relationship (none) with my siblings since my fathers death. I also have a thread going here. Probate should be renamed "people behaving badly."

Can a person avoid probate by having a name (like a child's name) added to everything they own--Real Estate, Bank and Brokerage Accounts, Car Titles, etc? At their death, the child can have the decedent removed by providing the death certificate.

OK. I will. The results of the meeting with the broker who stole the money is that he admits doing so. He admits to a significant amount, but substantailly short of the amount the police and bank show. He agrees to cooperate against his former brokerage in pursuing our claims of...

:( The brokerage has just ignored the demand letter. The attorney for the estate is meeting tomorrow with the broker who did the fraud and his attorney, for the purpose of negotiating and settlement. The attorney for the estate has reported to me that the bad guy is trying to stay out of...

The bad guy still has not pleaded guilty yet and the brokerage firm still has not gotten back on the demand letter to them. It's only been two weeks since it was sent and I'm sure they have to check on a few things because it was fairly involved. I went and contacted (anonymously) the news...

If anyone cares--which it appears is unlikely--to update this, as soon as I made a move to express my siblings' dislike of the Attorney for the Estate by contacting the Executrix, the Probate Judge, and another law firm, my siblings disappeared back into the woodwork!!!!! At least I have sorted...

We seem to think alike. I am planning on letting things take their course for awhile, letting the attorney send all his demand letters and let the broker, the brokerage and the bank take the ridiculous position that my father authorized his broker to write himself checks, have IRA...

I assume you also mean to sue the Brokerage firm and the broker who stole the money. All the bank did wrong is not repay the checks that were forged on their account and deposited into the broker's personal account at another bank. The County Attorney is notorious for not prosecuting...

Two police departments, the FBI and the County Attorney have been involved with this from the beginning. The criminal process is one side of the question over which I (we) can make no decisions. Our concern is the best procedure return the stolen funds to the Estate. The lack of clout...

Wow, I just now got notified that I had a reply! Anyway, I see I have failed to explain things clearly again. The attorney has not stolen any money! The "missing money" referred to is the money the broker stole, plus additional loss in my Dad's brokerage accounts. The heirs...

I'm sorry it took me so long to get back. I don't believe I got notification that I had a reply. Anyway, to explain the situation, my father was having health and financial problems (his broker was stealing from him). I retained an Attorney for him in April, to deal with both issues. Upon...

If an heir wishes to challenge the competency of an Attorney for an Estate, or wishes to have him replaced, how does that work?