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My father recently passed away and my two brothers and I have been dealing with the estate mess, as everything was left to us. We were referred to an attorney by a friend of the family, who works for the offices of said attorney. She said there are a lot of people out there who take advantage of people in our situation, and wanted to assure us we'd be in safe hands. We grew up accross the street from this person. So, we've been dealing with this mess for a few months now.

Yesterday, I got a call from the friend of the family, stating that our life-insurance checks had arrived and that we should stop by and pick them up. So I go up there after work to see her and we sign ppwk, discuss other issues regarding the estate, etc...and then it kind of dawns on me that I'm the only one she had called to come pick up my check. My brothers weren't there. Well, at the end of the meeting, I find out why.

As I'm getting up to leave, she starts telling me all these personal deatails about her private life, just out of the blue. How her husband left her and doesn't really help with the kids. How her credit is shot and how broke she is. She gives me details about her surgeries. Then, at the end of it all, she asks to borrow $10,000.00 from me. From my father's life insurance pay-out. I was shocked into silence at the time and told her that I'd, uh, have to get back to her on that.

This is the person that is helping our attorney handle my father's estate. At the very least I'm thinking this has to be illegal. I am also asking myself if this is the very reason she referred us to her offices in the first place.

These are just the facts, without too many of my pesonal opinions to distort things. Thoughts?

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