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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Paul, you should consider
withdrawing from the attorney-client relationship, since her
actions are plainly fraudulent. At least discuss the matter with
the Bar's ethics hotline attorney.<br>
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RPC 1.2 (d) A lawyer shall not counsel a client to engage, or
assist a client, in conduct that the lawyer knows is criminal or
fraudulent, but a lawyer may discuss the legal consequences of any
proposed course of conduct with a client and may counsel or assist
a client to make a good faith effort to determine the validity,
scope, meaning or application of the law.<br>
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RPC 4.1 In the course of representing a client a lawyer shall not
knowingly: ... (b) fail to disclose a material fact to a third
person when disclosure is necessary to avoid assisting a criminal
or fraudulent act by a client, unless disclosure is prohibited by
Rule 1.6.<br>
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RPC 1.6 (b) A lawyer to the extent the lawyer reasonably
believes necessary: ... (3) may reveal information relating to
the representation of a client to prevent, mitigate or rectify
substantial injury to the financial interests or property of
another that is reasonably certain to result or has resulted from
the client's commission of a crime or fraud in furtherance of
which the client has used the lawyer's services;<br>
<br>
Doug Schafer, in Tacoma<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/20/2017 1:26 PM, Paul Neumiller
wrote:<br>
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wants to keep deceased mom’s estate. No probate will be
opened. While she is paying off the creditors, she intends to
keep the left over money (less than $50k) because “that is
what Mom wanted” despite being contrary to Mom’s Will (despite
my advice otherwise and multiple cya letters). In doing
research, I find cases regarding PR liability and applicable
statute of limitation and trustees and their statutes of
limitation (appears to be three years after discovery), but I
am not finding cases regarding the non-PR and non-trustee
liability and culpability? Any thoughts? The beneficiaries
under the Will probably don’t even know that “Mom” has passed
(and in other state.)
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