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This has been 4 long years of just wanting communication about my father's estate. This office seems to forget your loved one is dead and thus treat you with very little, if any, empathy. They continue to work with a person named John Guy, even though they have had issues of delays with him in the past. Only use this office if you want everything to go to deadline and take as long as possible.

Very professional, friendly and knowledgeable.

A horrifying experience that cost my brother and me over $41,000. My brother, step sister and I hired Jeanne Gale to deal with the conservatorship/guardianship of our parents. My brother and I live on the east coast and our step sister is local to Yuma. Jeanne Gale entered into an illicit relationship with our step sister where inventories were never properly filed and estate assets were hidden and ended up missing. Ms. Gale actually advised me to lie to my parents about their finances. Shocking for an Estate Attorney. After my father’s death the estate was poorly handled without proper inventories being filed. When my brother and I presented our father’s will she contested it and smugly claimed it was not her job to validate the will (thankfully we recorded this conversation). I had to validate the will through the AZ Bar Association. Ms. Gale and our step sister made false accusations about my brother and me tying us up in court for over two years. When my brother and I battled her in the courts she finally dropped out in the middle of litigation and left our step sister hanging. When it was all over Jeanne Gale made over $75,000 from her chicanery. My brother and I were out over $30,000 in legal fees and $11,000 in other related expenses. She also made false statements in court about my father, smearing his reputation in order to elicit a reaction from my brother and me. The real loser in this was my step mother. She was only left with $102,000 in insurance money and Jeanne Gale took half of that in legal fees. My step mother has Alzheimer's and needs the money for her care expenses. Jeanne Gale should be disbarred and sent to jail. I will gladly provide evidence of anything I have written if need be.

My father set up a special needs trust fund for me with Attorney Gerald Hunt. My father passed away 5/31/2018. The money in the special needs trust fund is still not available to me as of 1/15/2019. I contacted Mr. Hunt by letter in November of 2018 asking for information that was needed for the Section 8 program I am enrolled in. I clearly specified the information needed for my Section 8 worker and requested that the information be supplied by 11/20/2018. I received no response. I called Mr. Hunt's office in December, asking to speak to him. I was told he was out of the office. I called twice more before a date and a time was set up for me to talk to Mr. Hunt on the following week. In the meantime I received a letter from Section 8 stating that they needed information from the attorney handling the special needs trust fund in order to process my Section 8 information. When I finally talked to Mr. Hunt, for all of five minutes, he agreed to fax the information to Section 8 in a few days. He transferred me to his secretary to take care of setting up the fax number for Section 8. I also asked his secretary to email me a copy of the information sent to Section 8. I also sent Mr. Hunt an email detailing what exactly was needed to be sent to Section 8. A few days later I received a copy of the information sent to Section 8. The information didn't include the list of what the special needs trust fund couldn't be used for, which was the most important piece of information that needed to be sent. I had specified this in my letter sent in November and in the email sent after I spoke with Mr. Hunt. So I had to contact Mr. Hunt's office again to get that information sent to Section 8. Mr Hunt charges for every contact made to his office. The money comes out of the funds being set up for my special needs trust fund. I am being charged for the November letter that was ignored, the phone calls I made to Mr. Hunt's office and the extra call I had to make so that his office would send the all the information I specified to Section 8. If Mr. Hunt had responded to my November letter, I would not have needed to contact his office in December, calls I will also be charged for. I don't believe this is ethical. In addition, in an earlier bill, I was charged for a phone call to his office regarding a dental bill. This is not accurate. I called to see when I would receive paperwork about accessing a special needs trust fund which Mr. Hunt had told me he would send me at a meeting about my father's will held the first week in June. The secretary told me I would receive the paperwork after the meeting with the trustee which was to be held the next day. Not only is the notation on this earlier bill incorrect, I still have not received paperwork telling me how to access my special needs trust fund when it is finally set up. In letters I have received from Mr. Hunt's office, there have been a number of inaccuracies, including incorrect monetary amounts, incorrect name of one of my Father's accounts which was with Unify Credit Union but was incorrectly called Unity Bank, and address errors. This is not what I would expect from a professional legal office. I live in Minnesota and Mr. Hunt works out of Arizona, which means I can't just make an appointment and go see him and get my questions resolved. He has not been clear, helpful, or responsive, causing me to have to make unnecessary additional contacts which I will be billed for. I read online that the cost for a simple probate is usually $1,500.00. Mr. Hunt's charges are nearly $2,000.00 so far. I would not recommend this lawyer to anyone.