A buyer of parcel of land buys a parcel of land. At closing, he receives a deed with a legal description A from an Alabama attorney. The buyer employs a land surveyor to survey the parcel of land. The surveyor gives him the plat with a legal description with his authorization number to give to the attorney for the closing. Thirty-four days after the closing, he instead records the deed without the legal description A in a Probate Judge Office in Alabama without visiting the attorney. Instead, he adds the legal description obtained from the surveyor without his seal and his permission to the deed obtained from the attorney to be recorded in the Probate Judge Office.

A neighbor discovered that a corner was located a great distance from the blazed trail. The neighbor finds the recorded deed in the Probate Judge Office. He asks the closing attorney if that the deed with the legal description at the closing. The closing attorney tells the neighbor he can not disclose that information.

If the attorney knows that his client is committing fraud and/or deception, is he required to stop the fraud and/or deception in Alabama? :mad:

All I will answer is the last sentence.

An attorney is, first and foremost, an officer of the court. An attorney cannot assist in the commission of any crime by either action or inaction.

This transends attorney client priviledge as long as the crime is to be committed in the FUTURE of the attorney client relationship.

Thank you for your concise, brief, and frank assessment of the situation. This situation has been at a stalemate for approximately two years. The attorney was notified in writing by the neighbor of the actions of the adjoining property owner. Hopefully, the closing attorney will hear about this posting through six degrees of separation and decides that life has consequences for all our dealings in life. The neighbor is praying that the closing attorney will evaluate this transaction again and take urgent action that may be required.:cool:


“Let Justice Flow like a Mighty River” Amos 5:24

“Do not move your neighbor’s boundary stone set up by your predecessors in the inheritance you receive in the land.” Deuteronomy 19:14