| I was the executor for a late friend's estate. I told the estate's lawyer to get it over with quickly. "Quickly" ended up being defined as 2 years and 5 different lawyers: the estate's lawyer, the residual beneficiary's lawyer, the lawyer for the business involved, and two different lawyers for the ex-wife (she never met a lawyer that would get along with her!) At the end of the whole thing the residual beneficiary's lawyer complained about the money being paid to the ex-wife's lawyers! I reminded him that I'd told them to sort it out two years previous and that they'd told me they had to do it "their way". They shut up and signed at that point.
They will spend $40,000 arguing over a $2,000 adjustment... but "hey", it's not THEIR money being spent. |