How can I force lawyer to stop a crooked inheritence ? -

Land was supposed to be split evenly 7 ways but the estate lawyer hired some land expert who gave one of the 7 parties a little over double the acreage of the other 6 and now the lawyer says we have only a week to accept it or he will auction off all the land and spit the money 7 ways. Lawyer was supposed to split the land evenly but now that he hasn t can I get a court order to make him do so ?

first you cant quot;forcequot; a lawyer to do anything.. maybe according to the will the land was distributed the way it was meant to be... you can fight the judgement but it may b expensive and time consuming to take it to court.. maybe it would b better to b happy with what you got instead of spending more money and maybe still end up with the original judgement or nothing at all...

I would, if the will said to equally split 7 ways then that is what he is suppose to do. Let me guess.....the atty s been dragging his feet and now all of a sudden it has to be settled in a week. Sounds about right. You should contact a different atty and get some free advice. Good Luck. By the way, is there any specific reason why it could not be divided equally like a river, pond or gully? Have you asked the atty for the bigger piece? What are the other 6 people wanting to do?

Go back to the probate court and ask for an explanation. If you all don t agree, odds are it will be sold and split.

You can always retain your own legal counsel, but without knowing all the facts it may have been quite difficult to dived the property into seven equal shares with access and all that is required by the state/ county where the landlord is located, Thus the reason for the expert, If it can not be worked out, then the only other option is to sell the property and split the proceeds which in this down market and all that has been happing on Wall Street, might have a diluted value

All land is not worth exactly the same, you know. If there is something about some of the acreage that makes it less valuable than some of the rest, then that piece may need to be bigger than the others to make it equal in economic value. Maybe that s why it was done the way it was. If that s not the case, sorry, I don t know enough about the legal details of the situation to be able to advise you, you need to see another lawyer who can advise you individually.