David D Jeffs

In April of 1988, I retained David D. Jeffs, of Jeffs and Jeffs, Provo, Utah, to create a trust in order to protect my real property and personal assets against potential legal claims and to save them for my offspring when I died. Mr. Jeffs assured me that the assets placed in the trust would be pro...tected. Over the years, I needed to file amendments to both the trust and will. At first, Mr. Jeffs would quickly get those changes made. However, there came a time that after THREE (3) months after a request and he had not made a much needed change, I created the amendment, signed it and had it notarized and then sent him a copy for his records. From that point on, I created any amendments to both the trust and will where Mr. Jeffs had failed to preform the task he was retained to do. I would send Mr. Jeffs emails during the interim which he would not reply to. In March of 2016, I contacted Mr. Jeffs to check on a rumor that I had heard that trust law had changed significantly and my assets were no longer protected. Mr. Jeffs told me that on July 1, 2004, Utah adopted the Utah Uniform Trust Act that changed the protection of assets and in fact, did away with any protection against potential legal claims. Mr. Jeffs indicated that he as a trust attorney had known of the proposed changes for sometime and changes to my trust could have been made to protect my assets under the proposed trust act changes. Yet, Mr. Jeffs failed to notify me of the upcoming changes so that working together, we could have made changes to the trust and protect those assets that were in it. Mr. Jeffs' lack of due diligence and professionalism to me, his client, needs to be made known to the public. He has violated several Rules of Professional Conduct including Rule 1.4, of Chapter 13, Communications with his client. I am posting this negative review on Avvo so that anyone looking for a trust attorney will be warned that David D. Jeffs lack of due diligence and professionalism and his inability to communicate with his clients. Due to my personal experience with Mr. David D. Jeffs, (#1654), of Jeffs and Jeffs, Provo, Utah, I cannot recommend him for any type of legal work especially if it is regarding a trust and will.