Personal Representative Pays $150,000 From His Own Pocket For Dragging Out Distribution

Representation of legatee in actions to remove the personal representative of the estate and obtain award of damages. Issues involving negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, conversion, fraud, constructive fraud, ademption, construction of Will, forfeiture of corporate charter, duties in administering estates, removal of personal representative, dissipation of estate assets, estate title to assets, corporate title to assets, bad faith, and estoppel. Litigation resulted in settlement in which the Personal Representative personally pay $150,000 in damages to the legatee, in addition to the withheld bequest. Anne Arundel County Orphans Court (Estate No. 82847); Anne Arundel County Circuit Court (Case No. C-02-CV-17-002846); Court of Special Appeals (Case No. 2349, September Term 2017); Court of Appeals (Case No. NO. 0112, SEPTEMBER TERM, 2019).