Deceased First Name: James
Deceased Last Name: Tooker
Deceased Date of Death: 7/5/97
Surrogate's Court County: Los Angeles
Surrrogate's Court State: Ca
Judges First Name: Deann
Judges Last Name: Myers
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How do I find an attorney, paralegal, advocate, support group inside or outside my area to help stop my 6 year probate case? My case contains a lot of deliberate "baggage" and misconduct by the so-called legal "Good old boy network".This case is in California & I am the SOLE HEIR.
Everyone has been paid as of May 2002. The Judge keeps putting my deceased fathers estate "off calendar," and has "REVERSED" another judge's rulings from a 4 day trial three years ago. Without an appeal, explanation. Just the statement of that she "DIDN'T FEEL THAT WAS WHAT THE ORIGINAL JUDGE MEANT. So I had to pay off people who had been denied any money from the trial's rulings. Kind of costly I feel.
My probate atty. for 4 1/2 years & after the sale of my father's commercial property and representing my father's estate went on a last minute trip out the country to suddenly die the following day? Which coincidentally he had sent a letter to notify me that he was no longer (after 30 years] going to be practicing family law w/ his family firm & that he was Sole-Practitioner & after my case would be starting his practice in realty law?
His paralegal petitioned the courts for permission to sell my fathers commercial property. She provided a list of ALL the things that were to be paid off through escrow (Chicago Title].This list included my father's residential beach property [Equity Loan w/ Well's Fargo]. I recently found out that after this was granted with the courts approval for me to sell, she sent a DIFFERENT LIST. Not the one that was presented in court. She took my dad's home off the list and put HER name in place of it. This same judge who reversed another judges trial rulings has deliberately & orally said that she would OVERLOOK the forgery by this ex-paralegal. Even after the guilty party admitted to it in court. This judge was assigned to this case, due to the ex-paralegal signing my Probate Atty.'s Name on a Verification Notice. The exact same day he had flown out of L. A. X. The assistant that helped my Probate Atty., from day 1 passes the State Bar a few months before his last minute trip to Sweden. The assistant NOW PROBATES his Estate. She is also the Paralegal's DAUGHTER. I was never notified by his family firm, nor his Paralegal of his death. I heard of this news almost 2 months after his so-called death. The beach property has extremely high equity. My last atty. put it in the default stage by refusing to sign his part on the estate's JOINT checking acct.[because I wouldn't sign a notarized agreement to put his name on my fathers property deed] I fortunately saved the house. He also asked & was granted permission to be removed off my case. The exact day it began "DEFAULT." I have a court date on July30.2003, the atty. who put my dad's residential property on the line for FORECLOSURE & after I received my remaining file from him, he included all the documentations showing that the few petitions he prepared & filed, was the instructions & copies from the ex-paralegal.He was following orders from her. He also refused to sign any checks for the Estate's bills. So all the utilities were cutoff for several months.Living at my dads house without any type of utilities was rather U~N~S~A~N~I~T~A~R~Y~!!!!!!!!!! and not deserved !!! Especially while there sat over $24,000.00 in this Estate Joint Checking Acct. and all the parties that were and weren't to be paid...were paid. I haven't gotten the share that I was told I would???? Is that why I was instructed to "WAIVE MY ACCOUNTING" from day 1? How do I find an atty. who still practices & shows PROPER & LEGAL LEGITIMATE ETHICS in the field of the LAW? Any justice out there anymore? =o(
Seeking Legit Law Help,
July 30.2003------(Wednesday) Update ------
On July 25.2003(Fri.).... After 7 months of no contact from the atty. of record on this case, I had someone else ask for this atty., besides myself.She got on the phone.I asked her when would we be getting together to work on a response? She told me she had an objection that she was putting together.I told her I had evidence of wrongdoing by the opposite team and the atty. who was taking me to court for fees.She told me to call her back on 7/27/03( Sun ) and she'd include my info.
On July 27.2003(Sun)....I called twice, left messages.Never heard back from her.
July28.2003(Mon)....I sent her a e/mail. She never answered them.She left a message on my voice mail at 6pm. I returned her call and sent another e/mail.
July29.2003(Tues)....I called this atty., several times with no response.Finally after 6 P.M., the atty called, I told her if needed I could get my evidenve to her office.She told me not to bother, that since the other atty had filed his papers incorrectly, that we would get another extension.Then at this time we would get together to work on a more detailed response and objection.
July30.2003(Wed)....I wasn't able to attend this court hearing, due to be sick. I called the atty. of record on this case. I was informed that she was off for the rest of the day.
July31.2003(Thurs)....I have left 5 messages and no response.
August 1.2003(Fri)....After 3 phone messages, I have heard nothing from this office.I call