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Lizama finds Pelisamen’s accounting ‘insufficient’
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Posted on Apr 19 2006
Superior Court Associate Judge Juan T. Lizama determined yesterday that the accounting submitted in court by an administrator of an estate is insufficient.
Lizama, however, gave Luis Pelisamen, administrator of the Rita Kaipat estate, an additional chance to submit a proper accounting.
If Pelisamen fails to do so, he will be held personally responsible for the entire sum, the judge warned.
Lizama directed attorney Joseph A. Arriola, counsel for Pelisamen, to submit the accounting by May 2, 2006.
Parties who may have any objections to the accounting must submit their objection by May 8, 2006. The court set a hearing on this issue for May 16, 2006.
In an order following the April 5, 2006 hearing in a related case, Lizama directed Pelisamen to submit to the court an accounting of the work performed by the surveyors Alfred K. Pangelinan of Meridian Surveying and Juan I Castro of Pacific Lands Surveying.
The purpose of the accounting was to clearly indicate the responsibility of the estate of Vicenta Kaipat, the individual responsibility of the Rita Kaipat estate, and what portion must be covered by the personal funds of Pelisamen.
In his order issued yesterday, Lizama said the accounting submitted by the administrator is insufficient, “as the categories of work performed are too broad.”
Lizama said his previous order also required Arriola to transfer $10,000 in legal fees to attorney Reynaldo Yana and $273,411.678 to attorney Antonio Atalig, counsel for the estate of Carmen Guelles.
These transfers were not made, said Lizama, and he commanded Arriola to transfer the funds immediately.
Lizama earlier reprimanded Arriola for partially complying with the court’s order. He said the lawyer paid out $10,000 in legal fees to Yana instead of $20,000 as the court had previously ruled.
