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matajo
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Will try to give an adequate short story which will lead hopefully to an answer from you. We hired an attorney approx. 7 months ago to evict a tenant from our home. She did not pay rent for four and a half months and destroyed our home. Finally 7 month later the case has been settled. He did get a garnishment of her wages and froze her bank account in order to obtain the money due us. Our question is in regard to the fact that we were not able to pay attorney fees as we are retired living only on social security. We did sign a statement that the attorney could be paid first after receiving any money from the evicted tenant. However, the checks are going directly to the attorney, who then types in his name, sends the check back to us to endorse so that he can deposit the check for the payment from us. We are questioning whether this is a legal way of handling the checks. We have always told him that we would immediately pay him upon receipt of money from the tenant, not knowing he would be receiving the checks and not us. We would just like some confirmation as to whether or not this is legal. Thank you