Is an estate attorney required to provide a beneficiary (decedent’s distributee) of the estate with the probate case number of that estate?
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Is an estate attorney required to provide a beneficiary (decedent’s distributee) of the estate with the probate case number of that estate?
Can the estate attorney insist on payment from the decedent’s distributee for providing the distributee with the probate case number?
Asked on April 17, 2013 under Estate Planning, Tennessee
Answers:
Victor Waid / Law Office of Victor Waid
Answered 11 years ago | Contributor
No an estate attorney is not required to give you a case number of a probate; you can obtain that information from the clerk at the probate court; and no he cannot charge you for that information.
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