Recently, a medical doctor requested $70,000 for his role in the battle over an estate that an elderly women left to a police officer who she met shortly before her death. Now the lawyers get their turn to go to the court hats in hand and hands open to request their fee for their role in the case. And it turns out they want $300,000 which they say adequately covers the cost incurred in making sure the former police officer did not get a penny. While requesting fees is a reasonable action on the part of the lawyers- who does not want to get paid after all?- it does seem to fit in with the general theme that anyone associated with this particular estate is out to get every last penny from it they can. Ultimately, it brings to mind the fictional case Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, but let us hope that it does not end in the same tragic manner that Dicken’s saw fit to arrange in his book.
See, Lawyers in Police Inheritance Case Asking Portsmouth for $300K, New Hampshire Public Radio, November 9, 2015.
Special thanks to Brian Cohan (Attorney at Law, Law Offices of Brian J. Cohan, P.C.) for bringing this article to my attention.
