In Re Estate of Goyette

OPINION

PARKER, Judge.

This is a combined appeal from two orders involving the estate of a mother and the estate of a son. Appellant contends that under a contingent fee agreement with the deceased son, he is entitled to 40 percent of the son’s share of his mother’s estate. His attempts to collect this fee from either of the estates have been denied by the trial court. We affirm.

FACTS

Joanna Goyette died in 1979. One of her four surviving children, Virgil Goyette, retained attorney Charles Wahlquist to represent him in various challenges to his mother’s will. He agreed to pay Wahlquist 40…