Homemade wills including because of a detestation of lawyers. Illiterate wills. Wills made by military persons before being shot to pieces. Some interesting wills of dull people. Choice of law governing management.
I'll be considering this.
1: Triple trouble: (1) testator conned by three dud specialist lawyers; (2) his estate potentially in big trouble if in the wrong hands; (3) item: his wills' executor conned by two dud specialist lawyers. Executor works it out for himself
Testator conned by three lawyers giving wrong information and dud advice. His estate then very vulnerable to unscrupulous estate manager and or his lawyers churning, cooking, baking, fermenting that information and advice. And so it proved! American lawyer (JD) practising dubiously in London advises testator MH, an American living in London, that he needs a New Jersey will. Wrong.
Two solicitors (JH, JR1) in an English law firm in Dorset advise MH that he also needs an English will. Right about the English will; wrong about two wills and an American will. Confusion and trouble for the future!
MH pays all three deadbeat shyster lawyers. Dies.
MH's two wills' executor (PM: see §§3 and 4 below) hires Big City full-of-shit lawyer (JR2; clicking heels, off ski-ing etc) and his sagely ruminating, smirking, morally inanimate, intellectually inert bovine lumpen dumkopf comatose carcass of an assistant (DBS; I accurately convey the impression she made on us) to assist.
The pair of them see the openings. Though the solution is obvious, they make more trouble over the illusorily technically difficult two wills — oh, how they churned it! — and bill monstrously criminally (when I visited them to protest, I got, apparently in their own defense, a smug 'We used to weigh the file'. I bet you did, John, I bet you did).
I don't think any of the many other shyster deadbeat lawyers PM and I dealt with evoked such disgust as this pair of self-infatuated imbeciles.
An appalled PM fires JR2 and DBS and hires another fancy lawyer (AP) who quickly advises, correctly, what PM (not a lawyer) had already worked out for himself: tear up the New Jersey will.
Criminal billing, lies, incompetence, more lying, more cheating, more criminal billing, more incompetence, outrageous dishonesty, and throughout a sense of entitlement and impunity, from one US lawyer (JD) and four English solicitors (JH, JR1, JR2, DBS).
I wonder who else these lawyers have screwed.
I wonder who they're screwing now.