This proceeding by an administratrix to fix the fee of her former attorney raises serious questions of overreaching by the attorney who obtained a fee of $8,500 following the execution of a retainer for a simple and uncomplicated estate.
The gross taxable estate is $144,567.28, of which everything except $500 to $750 is nontestamentary assets to which the administratrix as the surviving spouse succeeded. The small sum of...
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