Estate of Strauss v. Schaeffer

CRANDALL, Judge.

Claimant, Milton W. Schaeffer, appeals from the judgment of the probate division of the circuit court awarding $2,850.00 on his claim for attorney’s fees against the estate of Stanley Strauss. We affirm.

Schaeffer, a licensed practicing attorney, began representation of Stanley Strauss on January 5, 1982, in a dissolution of marriage action involving his wife, Betty Strauss. Schaeffer and Stanley Strauss orally agreed that Schaeffer’s fee would be paid either from an expected inheritance or from the proceeds of the sale of certain marital property, as those funds became…