I have talked with the Mobile County Bar and The Alabama State Bar Association concerning Mr. Silver's counsel to probate our Mother's will. The executor/trix were encouraged by Mr. Silver to probate her will with a simple understanding given of a sentence that was described in a paragraph that w...e questioned prior to probate. Mr. Silver said the deed would be put in the 4 grantees' names and a tenant would be living in our dwelling place. This counsel has destroyed finalizing the estate because lifetime spousal RIGHTS were UNEXPECTEDLY claimed after probate. This lawyer did NOT describe the true meaning of the Art III (a) of our Mother's will that ALL family members KNEW FROM OUR MOTHER's conversation that we were to afford a comfortable period of time for her husband to RELOCATE and her spouse had said openly that he thought it would take him "3... 6 months" to move on. Mr. Silver did NOT protect our Mother's assets but provided rights to his friend and former client as this is a 2nd LIFETIME SPOUSAL RIGHTS CLAIM this attorney accomplished for this same client in 9 years, documented in court records. When TIC's were converted to have REMAINDERMAN INTERESTS unexpectedly, it destroyed our faith and confidence that the legal authorities cared about the true moral outcome intended in our Mother's will. The executor/trix are GUILTY of TRUSTING Mr. Silver's counsel and being uneducated legal clients. The 4 grantees live from CA to GA and this can ONLY be addressed in the Mobile County court system. I wrote Mr. Silver 3 letters over a year's time asking to correct this and his 1 letter reply made fun of us. The letter is a disgrace to his profession and maybe I should post it for others to read. He is 48 years licensed and if anyone wants to challenge his superior legal abilities they would have to dedicate time and resources that are sometimes unbearable to accomplish. This is not opinion, hearsay, he said, she said... but facts that have hurt my Mom's family very much. The evidence is mostly in note-taking because 2 witnesses have since passed away. Undisturbed rights of the lifetime spouse prevent solving this except by court proceedings. Everybody said we should have hired a lawyer to probate our Mother's will. So, do you hire a lawyer to tell you what your lawyer says is right or not? I even called my state representative (Mo Brooks) concerning the lifetime rights claim LAW which was made a second time by this spouse in the state of AL... spoke with an attorney (Mr. Fortenberry). The provision is to prevent homelessness but to my surprise I cannot find anyone who oversees or knows these special laws. REMAINDERMEN have no rights until the LIFE TENANT dies. Mr. Silver's counsel did not afford quality legal insight so we could resolve any difference or circumstance PRIOR to probate. Right moral choices are always legal.
