<*> Credit cards calling all the time. Threatening to send the account to collection (hello, the person is deceased, I don't quite think they give a rat's eye about their credit rating.) Demanding a monthly minimum payment.

<*> Not having all of the bank statements for the accounts yet. Mysteriously nine months from one account and ten months from the other are both missing with a discrepancy of $2k showing on one as it is. Yet the bank will not release the statements untilt he letters of authority are complete. Call to tell them to freeze the accounts and the blighters allow auto withdrawals from credit card companies (not all owed).

<*> Wait weeks for some members of the family that have to sign waivers for appointment, just because they couldn't wait one extra day to sign the damn-ed things while they were there to begin with.

<*> Listen to a couple bitch about an insurance check they want cashed (came in their name AND grandfather's) for $6k and hear them get beligerent about us refusing and demanding the check be delivered to the attorney until things are unravelled.

<*> Go through box after box of paper records so inundated with tobacco that your hands end up greasy and you are coughing up black lung flakes.

<*> Flush about twenty bottles of pain medications and other sundry pharmaceuticals down the toilet.

<*> Contact the county prosecutor concerning funds being paid to your grandfather from a theft of his property.

<*> Search out three pension contacts in reams of nightmarish paper to notify them to stop sending monthly checks.

<*> Spend a half an hour on Social Security's 'computerized' call-in, just to notify them that they have to stop sending SSI and to reclaim what they overpaid (it gets taken automatically from the account)

<*> Send in a life insurance claim. Listen to some in the family make comments about how the money ($5k) should be used to pay bills or be shared with his caretaker - even though Grandfather leaves explicit instructions to the contrary. We follow Grandfather's instructions.

<*> Listen to some family members make long-distance commentary upon the status of grandfather's car (they want it sent down to them). Issue a letter to all of them telling them if they want the vehicle, they have to buy it since there is very little funds and plenty of bills.

<*> Go through all documents, collecting all cards and paper issue which was sent to grandfather from the children and grandchildren. Mail all these items back to the person that sent them as well as obituary notices for grandfather and grandmother.

<*> Sort out historical info and documentation from the trash.

<*> Recover all remaining items from his caretaker's home.

<*> Listen to calls from brother concerning how "HARD" it is on the caretaker and how we should really do something for her. Discover multiple entries in the checkbook for payments to the caretaker beyond the monthly fee... receipts for a car... new porch on their house.

<*> Get phone call from aforementioned caretaker "seeing how we are doing". Decide not to answer the phone anymore.

<*> Review letter from another attorney where she describes how the caretaker was in the process of being named in a new will, but that it never got completed.

<*> Run credit report, find a $5k federal tax lien (shudder)

and on, and on, and on