Is there any liability for an estate attorney who fails to close a simple estate within a reasonable amount of time?
My father died 5 years ago. We hired an estate attorney to settle the estate.
After 5 years and numerous unanswered phone calls, the estate is still not closed. Only after I closed the estate account and notified them, did we get a response. The response was a bill which they referred to as an "informal settlement". We beneficiaries choose to ignore it especially because the inaccuracy and the lack of detailed accounting sound too fishy.