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Uncle. Thanks JETX.

What is the name of your state?What is the name of your state? NY Can a lawyer be forced to reveal the contents of conversations between himself and a client, if the client is now dead and the communcations are important to show the state of mind of the client before death? Thanks

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, but are these kind of offenses likely to get this lawyer in seriously hot water with the NYS Bar Assn.? The man has an AV Martindale-Hubbell rating, by the way.

What is the name of your state? NY My father died 2 years ago. At the time, my father's brother (who is now deceased as well) went to a lawyer to assist him in finding and gathering my father's assets. The lawyer in turn contacted my father's accountant, who informed him he had a copy of my...

Not having the NY statutes of frauds before me (not surprisingly as I am not a lawyer), and judging from the other responses, I gather the party that reneges on the sale agreement under the terms mentioned couldn't be sued for fraud, could they?

What is the name of your state?What is the name of your state? NY Is an oral agreement to buy/sell a co-op apartment, with no contract drafted, no money paid and the only papers exchanged are the parties' respective phone numbers and the agreed-upon price of sale, a binding contract, or can...

What is the name of your state? NY Is there any law that says a witness to an American will must be a US citizen? Can a will be rendered invalid if one of the witnesses was a non-citizen, even if his or her command of English was good? How about if the witness doesn't speak English...

Will he be though? If there are enough witnesses to testify that the daughter had no contact with her mother for a very long time, shouldn't that be enough to uphold the will? I thought nullifying a will was very difficult even if the case is strong,and here the daughter seems to have a very...

My uncle lived in New York all his life, and the POA was obtained there. He was moved to Illinois in the last few months, most of the time he spent either in hospital or a nursing home, and the cousin had them put his own IL address on the death certificate (another bone of many I have to pick...

What is the name of your state? NY/IL My uncle died a month and a half ago. During his lifetime he (unwisely, in my opinion) gave a general POA to a distant cousin, who proceeded to take over his entire estate, took my very sick uncle off to another state, and alienated him from the rest of the...