Terrible Experience
In October 2021 Ms Ines Kallweit of KHQ Lawyers was appointed as Administrator of my Late Grandmother's Estate. As of the time of writing this review, the said Estate is still not finalised.
When Kallweit was appointed as Administrator there was little work to be done, the major asset had previously been sold, Estate funds were transferred to the KHQ Trust account. Seemingly, Kallweit basically only needed to read the Court Findings, Review the Estate File, Attend to the usual Duties AND make Final Distributions... Well nearly 16 months into KHQ/Kallweit as Administrator and the Estate is NOT FINALISED!
KHQ have already charged the Estate in excess of $14,000.00 and have indicated that the remaining $22,000.00 in Estate funds will also be chewed up by KHQ for fees and services.
In addition to the inexcusable and expensive "GO SLOW" on my Late Grandmother's Estate, i have found Kallweit to be extremely arrogant, dismissive and ignorant. When clear and obvious mistakes were made by Kallweit, l would email to raise and rectify the error, Kallweit would charge for reading my email, but seemingly ignore the matter i was raising.
Kallweit also devised a "Plan" to (unnecessarily) mislead the Australian Taxation Office. I say "Unnecessarily" because there is NO CGT APPLICABLE to my Late Grandmother's (former) home, but Kallweit suggested that there is/or might be.... To avoid the CGT (which was never applicable) Kallweit wrote to beneficiaries outlining a plan to declare that the "Estate Funds" were "Beneficiary Funds" and declare to the ATO that the deceased had no tax returns to file.
Many of my concerns have been raised by email to Mr David Kelly (Managing Director of KHQ) but he fails to respond to my correspondence. It appears to me that KHQ have no process for adequately dealing with complaints and/or issues that might arise between a KHQ Lawyer and a client (or in my case a Representative of a Beneficiary).
All in all l cannot think of anything pleasant or satisfactory when it comes to my dealings and experience with KHQ Lawyers, Ines Kallweit and/or David Kelly.
With there being a tremendous number of Lawyers "Out There" to choose from, I would suggest that prospective clients seek an alternate to KHQ Lawyers.
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