Kira Sue Masteller

She handled the probate for my deceased brother, since he had no trust or will. My second brother was fighting me. I confided an idea I was mulling over to Kira with explicit instructions to not tell anyone else. She told his attorney anyway even though I had asked her not to. She betrayed my trust, ...which forced me to abandon the idea I had. Her answer was…”I don’t live in a vacuum.” Do not use this attorney! She couldn’t be bothered to make the trip from Encino to San Bernadino County for the final court date. She sent a staffer that could not answer the judges questions, so my out of pocket expenses were denied by the judge. And it took a lot longer to get my reimbursement. She’s terrible!

I feel for a review I just read about this attorney. My mother hired her to make a simple amendment to an already existing trust. I emailed them all the pertinent documents with the information for my mother. my mom believing that all was well came home with a notorized amendment that was completely ...wrong. This woman had beneficiaries sharing in things they were not entitled to and people left out where they weren't to be. It was an absolute mess. After reading it thoroughly my mom was beside herself. I didn't give her the opportunity to be any way with me. I emailed her and explained that my mom would not be paying her for services that were rendered incorrect because they couldn't take the time to read accompanying documents. I would never recommend her or a firm that would allow these glaring mistakes to go without being addressed

I have known Ms.Masteller for many years professionally. I have referred legal work to her and helped her, in my capacity as a banker, with her personal financial situations. My wife and hired her to draft our personal trust. To my regret I recently hired Ms. Masteller to draft a very simple amendme...nt to my 94 year old mother's trust. I patiently and throughly explained to Ms. Masteller that my mother wished to name me immediately her co-trustee. After many delays I received the documents. I was forced to delay the signing of the documents until either her notary-paralegal or Ms. Masteller could avail themselves to travel to my mother's bedside to sign the documents. Neither Ms. Masteller or the para-legal ever made themselves available. When I asked her paralegal on Feb 12, 2017 she responded that no one was available this week. The paralegal offered several reasons for this delay, none of which were reasonable in a business dealing. When I stressed, again, the urgency of the situation I was informed that the Kira Masteller was going on vacation and that a partner in the firm had died. Please note the correction to the documents was a matter of re-writing two lines in the amendment. When Kira Masteller finally called she denied her mistake, accused me of yelling at her paralegal, talked over me, resorted to screaming and hung up on me. I must admit to writing emails to Kira that were less than complimentary, but she was uncivil with me on the phone call. I suggest to you that you can find a better lawyer than Ms. Masteller. My experience with Ms. Masteller is that she is immature, hostile and completely unwilling to take responsibility for her mistakes. Ms. Masteller's response to my justified criticism was to summarily refuse to fix this glaring mistake and fire both my mother and my family as clients. Ms. Masteller is so entitled that she has somehow justified to cause my 94 year old mother harm.