Are lawyers who control estate administration are they pimps. They manage their clients and charge outrageous fees. Or is controlling a fiduciary process a conflict of interest? A lawyer becomes the de facto decision maker when he directs strategy, drafts everything, controls communications, and filters information.
First he needs someone who he can control. And that is easy as lawyers control the narrative. After the damage is done and regret sets in, the client always says my lawyer told me to do that.
Lawyers think themselves to be the soi-disant elite. They are arrogant pretenders.
When I first became involved with the estate, each law firm I approached said that they did not want me to communicate with the beneficiaries, as it would muddy the waters. However WESA says beneficiaries have to communicate with each other to eliminiate unnecessary legal fees. But then who reads WESA.
The question is why do we need administrators/executors. Considering administrators and lawyers take 40% of an estate, there is something very very very wrong with this process. In France they do not have administrator/executors, so why do we have them.
