Great lawyer

Though many things were done well working with Mr. Barber, a key element was not shared with me. As a client who is not a lawyer, information on what would make a deed legal and what makes a deed questionable should be very important information given to the client. Because the info was not there, we lost the homeplace I grew up at. Knowing what I do now, it is obvious that the deed was questionable-it was not filed for 17 years, it was filed at court house one month after my dad’s death, and it was not made known to us until right before probate was to close. We put off probate for a month to see what needed to be done, but there didn’t seem to be a legal answer. After we finished probate, I found out that this type of deed is a dresser drawer deed (one of many names for it) and when I called Mr. Barber asking about it, his answer was that he had “wondered” about that. It would have been nice if he had questioned it before probate ended. To change it now would involve the cost of thousands of dollars and the proving would have to be on our side. Before probate, the other party would have had to do the proving. On top of this, since probate had ended, I had to pay for the consultation ($1500) out of my pocket for asking the lawyer what happened and what could we do?