Do Estate Lawyers have the Right to deplete your Family's Trust Fund?

by Diane
(Connecticut)

Our parents hired an estate attorney to do their will and estate planing. Now for one, the attorney insisted on investing in very very low paying investments, as low as 1% only 4 years ago.

Then he went with an investment firm who has charged high fees and has now lost tens of thousands of dollars of our family's trust fund, at least 20% of it!

He claimed previously he couldn't "touch" the principal, but not only has he had the investment firm that HE choose, not us, touch the principal, but lose the principal!

We are at the point where our family's trust fund is at least 20% lower than it used to be when our parents first died and that happened within the last year!

He's done a number of other unethical things too. He's even paying himself as much as one of prime beneficiaries gets each quarter! I doubt my parents wanted this to happen!

How do we get him to reimburse us for the money he's lost and get rid of him as an estate attorney, for our family's trust fund?

We are in the state of Connecticut. We've read of a number of incidents of unethical business practices in Probate Courts in Connecticut and among estate lawyers in that state.