Sunday, April 26, 2009

BusterStronghart@Gmail.com

Dear Mel:

Shane's Dad wrote my Father's and Mother's will. His Dad put up with my mother's constant changes of her desire for the disposition of her ashes and her jewelry. "Now here, then there, but maybe over there too, and could they be divided?," a series of changes that went on for years. Mother finally decided on the fourteenth hole at Oak Mountain, because "Patti always has trouble on that hole," and if her ashes were there mother expected that it would help Patti's game. Luckily I don't play and if I had played, it would have destroyed my game, not helped it, but Mother had strange and wonderful ways of thinking. -- I wonder whether you ever met her.

I always wondered whether she intended to help or really to hurt her. You know the competition that goes on between so many mothers and daughters--after all, they both love the same man.

Coincidently, I met Shane last week with a friend who had some estate trouble. He was very kind, has a sense of humor, and seems very knowledgeable.. . I like that: 'educated plus experience.'

He didn't charge for close to a one hour consultation. He didn't feel that she had a case and told her so. That is unlike some lawyers who might have started a useless, but expensive, case.

I don't think that you will go wrong consulting with him.

His office is across the street from our apartment...

"Uncle"

mek