For two years I fought, aggressively fought to get my inheritance; an asset claimed by a corrupt aunt and uncle who were entrusted upon my mother's deathbed to distribute the funds according to her Trust and Will. They extorted it for their own financial gains over 18 years. A sibling tried to capita...lise on the extortion. I tried everything to stop it.
I isolated myself to focus on protecting what I could from greed mongering family members by reading and tracing my mother's actions and the law in order to draft a compressive objection letter to the court to prove what they had done. As I reflect on this success here Egypt, I am only just now able to take in how much time in life I had lost. Age 34-36 - just gone. 4 years prior - just living in abject worry. And the years prior to that - only my closest friends saw upclose the hell I was living.
I am so proud to say two weeks ago I finally received my inheritance. With insane thanks to my lawyer, Jesse Stern who ended up charging me only $6K. This man was incredible! Clever. Shrewd.. With cunning skill! Just a true Godsend. (Good luck to those set against him: a fearless attorney who knows the ins-and-outs of his practice!? Good luck opposition. Good luck). He worked with me for a year after my exhaustive battle with self-representation. In one of our final phone calls, my lawyer gently said to me that he calculated the hours as $11,000 worth of hours spent on my case, but he's only going to take 6. I dunno why he did that! I just keep thinking he must have known I was telling the truth. Why else? I've never heard of a lawyer doing that. 11K is about 30 hours of work. And that's not even close to the reality of how much time this man spent; this man spent loads of hours (LOADS) on the phone explaining the laws, ways, means and providing stratrgic advice to me...and that was just the phone calls. I gave him hundreds - if not honestly about 1000 pages of research, emails and documents to comb through. This man: 30 hours??? No, not even close. How can I possibly express what he has done over the course of 1 year?
To this day, I've never had the honor of meeting Mr Stern. I'm not even sure of what he looks like. But dear God I hope that every bit of the blessings he has just given to me - by giving me a chance to be financially stable, a fresh start in life - I pray to God it's returned to him in full.
Jesse Stern, you are among the incomparable - thank you for helping me protect and receive my inheritance. You truly are a gift sent from heaven above. I know it sounds corny - but there is no doubt in my mind that it's true.