A client sued his deceased lawyer’s estate to collect a debt in Palm Beach Circuit Court. Then things got ugly

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Palm Beach County Courthouse. Photo: Michael Rivera CC BY-SA 4.0

By Noreen Marcus, FloridaBulldog.org

A case that started four years ago as a straightforward debt collection against the family assets of a now-retired Palm Beach Circuit Court judge has morphed into a slugfest of allegations about trickery and bad faith on both sides.

A friend and client of the judge’s late husband, a personal injury attorney, says his survivors welched on a $190,000 loan that came due five weeks after the lawyer died in June 2019.

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