[WSBAPT] managing a creditor's claim

[Kate Szurek]

Our decedent and her late husband were cared for by live-in married couple (caregiver and gardener).  After the second death, the couple filed a substantial creditor's claim (over $100K) saying only that they "devoted years to [the decedents'] care."  True, but all along they received free room and board for themselves and their 3 children, in separate living quarters (a nice guest house on the property), plus reasonable compensation, gas, food . . .  We also let them remain for several months after the second death so they could watch the place, provide maintenance, and find suitable housing.

We rejected the claim; they brought suit; we made a counterclaim (place was left with food exposed and filled with vermin) and later a settlement offer.  A few unproductive phone conferences and well over a year later, nothing is happening.

Ideas for how to shake this loose --- that doesn't involve a flood of paperwork generating attorney's fees?

Thanks in advance, oh experienced ones.

Kate


Kate Szurek, J.D., LL.M. (in Taxation)
kate at skagitlaw.com<mailto:kate at skagitlaw.com>

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