Atsugi
Moderator emeritus
- Joined
- Jan 11, 2011
- Messages
- 5,921
- Reason
- Lost a loved one
- Diagnosis
- 12/2010
- Country
- US
- State
- FL
- City
- Orlando
Just a warning about a legal danger.
Right after my wife passed, a lawyer (not mine) approached a judge in the elevator and mentioned that poor so-and-so had died (my wife) and needed a personal representative. The judge signed the lawyers papers on the spot, appointing that lawyer to be the personal representative of MY wife.
That gave the lawyer the authority to go into my wife's accounts and look around. Pretty convenient for him since his firm was SUING my wife.
Not right, but not easy to fix. It was a fluke that I found out about it in the first place.
Right after my wife passed, a lawyer (not mine) approached a judge in the elevator and mentioned that poor so-and-so had died (my wife) and needed a personal representative. The judge signed the lawyers papers on the spot, appointing that lawyer to be the personal representative of MY wife.
That gave the lawyer the authority to go into my wife's accounts and look around. Pretty convenient for him since his firm was SUING my wife.
Not right, but not easy to fix. It was a fluke that I found out about it in the first place.