Aaron Hall - An Un Ethical Lawyer who Left his Ethics behind him when he Administered the First Draft of my Trust
This is the man I chose to draft the most important instrument of my Life.
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When I met with him I shared my story with him and my objectives as to what I needed from him. This email shows the simplicity of what I needed to have done.
Here is the document he sent me an almost 80 pg document filled with Jargon and absolutely unreadable to most laymen as he chose to pick a template that he had already owned and simply tried to fit the terms I had discussed the net result being an 80 pg document filled with confusion and room for interpretation leaving the trust and the beneficiaries of the trust vulnerable and wide open to court interpretation as oppose to being explicit about all the terms as how I had simply stated in my email.
This is the first 80 pg document that he produced filled with legal Jargon - Original Trust Document 80 pages long
Please see in this document the number of comments inserted by me and what I had to do as a client to question all the legalese that would be left wide open for interpretation to ensure simplification and clarity within the document. Since this was a Trust and my final Testament of my desires i.e. my Will, I was put thru hell as I authored these changes by being stimulated with demonic episodes screaming every 3 min, being shot with searing headaches, pain behind my eyes and electricity.
If I had not read this document the worst forms of betrayal to his client wishes lie on
1) In Article 2 Section 2 - he assumes more than one trustee besides myself who is the grantor/owner of the trust and the trust administrator. What's worse is that he awards power to these so called trustees such that they may be able to receive and transfer assets and receive assets should they choose to accept it and name them beneficiaries of these assets.
Please note the verbiage - I am the Trustor and the administrator of the trust the initial trustee. However he chooses to say "I, or any other person or entity, may transfer or devise to my Trustees additional assets, real or personal, and may name my Trustees as the beneficiary of life insurance policies, annuities, retirement plans or similar contracts. Such assets, policies and proceeds, upon notice and acceptance by my Trustees, shall be a part of my Trust Estate and subject to all the terms of my Trust Agreement."
2)Then after knowing how my ex-husband has abused me and how he would use my mental health diagnosis to milk me of every cent I could possibly own
he goes on to state in Article three Section 2 " If I am not then living and competent, written notice shall be given to my next Successor Trustee; or if there is no next Successor Trustee, to the beneficiaries then entitled to receive income or principal distributions under my Trust Agreement or their respective Personal Representatives, or if any of such beneficiaries are then minors, to the persons having the care or custody of any such minor."
He is clearly aware that no income can be distributed to my beneficiaries i.e. my children till they complete a Law Degree and Cyber Security Degree. How are they minors if that is what they need to complete? Why mention of the personal representative taking care of the minors which is the Father when I don't want the Father to have anything to do with the trust.
3) This by far is the worst betrayal that if I had not the brains to read every line go knows what would have happened to me.
In Article 4 Section 2 - My incapacity - He states that in case of incapacity it is presumed that I will return to my home country. How could he even put such a thought into the most important document that dictates my life, my wishes and those of my beneficiaries in terms of what they get from me and when? How he could possibly put that statement there which states that Me a United States Citizen would presumably return to India my country of origin in case of incapacity to be taken care of by whom. He is well aware I have no family. So what did he do allow the system which includes my ex-husband to kick me out of this land and dump me into some institution in a country that I have not visited for 10 years now. I have no words to describe the betrayal and the utter lack of disregard to his clients life when he chose to not even consider the impacts he rendered to his client life by stating in Section 2 -
"Notwithstanding any other provision of my Trust Agreement, as a notification to any governmental benefits provider, if I become incapacitated it is conclusively
presumed that I intend to return home"
Please read thru the comments on this document and u will see how I poured over every line in this document. He could not deal with the comments so I had to then create a Summary Document outlining the concerns with every paragraph in this Trust Document.
Here is the Summary Document and here is how simply I stated the edits removing all the unnecessary jargon that he included for $6000 because he did not have the ethical decency or the basic set of ethics to do his client justice which would mean that if his unethical lazy attitude demanded that he use a canned template that he would at least spend some thought into tailoring it to what his client needed for the $6000 he charged to use an off the market template.
The Worst Gross Injustice he did his client is that he produced this 80 pg document of sheer garbage without discussing tax implications, what tax laws were out there to protect me and my beneficiaries, why IRA's were a different beast from that of real estate and why did it require its own set of rules.
To begin with a lawyer before drafting a Will or a Trust Testament inventories the assets u have so that appropriate Estate Plan may be recommended. My most basic assets were my IRA's and my home. How could he possibly not have known that IRA's were a different beast in its entirety and if I had set terms on which my girls could inherit my monies that it would call for a different IRA structure. How could he produce this 80 pg piece of garbage and then ask an additional $5000 to put an IRA trust in place?
Link to the Summary Document asking him to remove all the Unnecessary Jargon
Then Mr. Hall after he saw how through I was he decided to provide me with a Restatement of the Trust an amendment of sorts to the original Rubbish that he drafted cutting the document into 1/3 the size which was 21 pages long. So how much jargon did he incorporate to begin with if he could cut down an 80 pg document into 21 pages.
Link to the Original Restatement of the Trust with my Comments
Clearly he has issues processing comments in the document so I went ahead and prepared another Summary Document for him. - Link to the Summary Document containing the edits that would be needed to the Restatement of the Trust he authored which was now 21 pages long.
Then came the birth to the First Amendment to the Restatement of the Trust Courtesy all my efforts to trim out all the fat and boil it down to explicit instructions on what the terms of the Trust are and how the assets should be distributed. This document while 21 pages long has at least 5 pages worth deletions that u will see incorporated by him
Here is the communication I had with him that ensured a few more unnecessary items were removed
Link to the First Amendment of the Restatement of the Trust
After all the deletions were removed and after all the hours I spent on revising the document and bringing it up to where a Trust Administrator could own it the final version was 16 pages long. Inspite of all the hours spent on it I still have to engage another attorney to add look thru or see thru language to this amendment so that my daughters cannot directly inherit the money's from my IRA because they are stated as beneficiaries but rather the trust will. When a trust inherits IRA monies the Trust pays a higher tax rate so I have to establish an IRA trust that will hold the monies for 10 years as according to the New Secure Act IRA monies inherited has to be exhausted within 10 years. Mr. Aaaron hall after charging me $6000 could not even complete the work to the First Amendment he also wanted an additional $5000 to add look thru and see thru language. Today after all the effort I spent on it I have to spend additional money with another lawyer.
Communication with Aaron Hall on any taxes the Trust might owe or my Daughters might owe
This man Aaron Hall was so corrupt that he even refused to educate me on what banks do, how they manage trusts, which banks I could potentially go to learn more. A man who does nothing but author real estates could not even guide me to which banker I could speak to have all the trust administration questions answered probably because he wanted to make money administering the trust himself.
My conversation with Security Bank to understand Trust Administration
My Conversation with Charles Schwab to understand Trust Administration
My conversation with U.S. Bank to understand Trust Administration