In The Law Tribune front-page report entitled “Probate Chief Seeks More Muscle” (May 7, 2007), I was surprised to read that Probate Court Administrator James Lawlor could only give two reasons for his quest for more power.
When the General Assembly’s Program Review and Investigations Committee looked at Mr. Lawlor’s complaint that he lacked authority, the committee recommended the administrator and the Probate Assembly examine the issue of the administrator’s enforcement authority “for situations that do not rise to the level of formal referral to the Council on Probate Judicial Conduct.”
