Florida Attorney-Client Privilege & the Crime-Fraud Exception
When does an attorney-client privilege arise to protect supposedly confidential communications? If I contact a probate litigator West Palm Beach about an inheritance matter in Florida, is my conversation protected? Will it be kept confidential?
Attorney-Client Privilege in Florida Trust and Estate Litigation
- If you’re a Palm Beach estate planning attorney in Florida, you are probably contacted frequently by a family member wishing to contest a will or to ensure that they obtain an inheritance.
- You may agree to provide legal services or sometimes you might simply speak with them initially and go your separate ways.
- What happens if someone speaks to you as a probate lawyer and they don’t hire you?
- Are the communications still privileged?
- Does the attorney-client privilege still exist if someone speaks with you about their probate matter but you decide not to take their case?
- Can that person’s opposing party hire you as their trust and estate attorney West Palm Beach?
- Can someone testify about what you spoke to the Florida probate lawyer about?
- Can a Palm Beach judge order a lawyer to testify at a probate trial about a client?
Can a lawyer be ordered to testify about a client?
- A June 8, 2016 New York Times article discusses a tax evasion case involving a 71 year old man named Mr. Zuckerman.
- Mr. Zukerman allegedly “failed to report a profit from the sale of an oil company that would have generated $31 million in income taxes and misled his accountants and lawyers in the course of an I.R.S. audit.”
- This article discusses the crime-fraud exception to the attorney-client privilege.
- What is this exception?
- How does it affect the relationship you have with your guardianship trial lawyer Miami?
- To read the entire article, click here.