Mother Died Right Before She Was Going To Sign Her Will. Original Lawyer Knew This, But Now Just Wants His Money And To Let Everything Be.

Ok, so, this is NYS. Just to get started because I know states have such differing laws… I have a pretty serious situation that I’m absolutely lost on what to do from here… (I will give a little context: this question is based off of what my mothers situation is and she is at the end of her rope trying to figure out exactly what to do here, I will type the following story and question on her behalf and base this off of exactly what she needs to know. She is a saint and has suffered so much throughout this situation and most of her life and I promised I’d try to help her figure out what to do with any means possible, so thank you in advance to anyone taking their time to read/answer these questions… I will now start typing the post from her first person perspective)…. So my elderly mother died last year (March 2024) and I was basically her caretaker. She was 94 years old and had always asked that she not be sent to a nursing home, but rather be able to live the rest of her days at her home… I had 3 brothers and 1 sister. One brother died by suicide over 35 years ago; and he had 2 daughters (one from his first marriage that wrote the family off and has wanted nothing to do with the family almost her entire life. And the other had very little contact with any of us for most of her life as well). And then my other brother died tragically about 4 years ago from a fall down some stairs. That brother had 2 sons who have been in and around our lives pretty regularly. That leaves my sister and my last brother. Bothe of them had moved half way across the country well over 15 years ago. Which has left me to be my mother’s caretaker the past few years. I have given up everything to take care of her. I have not worked, or been able to pursue almost anything for my life the past few years because I chose to just take care of my mother, while my husband works and we live at a separate house, I basically come over to her house and stay with her, clean her bathroom bucket, feed her, help her handle bills, doctors appointments, you name it. I have done everything for her these past few years and the last 8 months of her life, me and my husband had to move into her house to full time take care of her because she fell and had an accident… Now I’m sure I have probably already gone a bit too far into detail, but I don’t know the specifics of how everything works. But finally, about a month or two before she died, we talked to our lawyer because she wanted to write out a will. The will was going to be along the lines of being split out equally between me, my surviving brother, and sister. With me receiving a little extra in regards to having been her caretaker for years now…. So long story short, she ends up dying just before we are able to get the will done. And once she died, our lawyer basically said “oh well, sorry for your loss and now moving onto the laws and where we go from here, her estate will now be passed on to you, your brother, your sister, your dead brothers 2 daughters, and your other dead brothers 2 sons”… This has created a mess and now these grandchildren who have had almost nothing to do with my mother, and family and some having absolutely nothing at all to do with us have all of a sudden stepped in and are gladly waiting for the house and property to sell and constantly bugging us to get it done so they can take their money and run…. I’m just stressed out because I know my mother would be turning in her grave if she knew these grandkids were going to get an equal split with us. And our lawyer knew exactly what she was planning to do for the will, it just wasn’t finished and signed. But now he just seems like he doesn’t want to follow up or dig deeper and stand up for us but instead take his pay and avoid the hassle of trying to maybe work this out for us?… I could be wrong and maybe there is nothing that can be done, but I’m hopping on here as a last resort before I have to pay out the ass for another lawyer just to tell me the same thing. Is there legal ground to say that it should just be split as how my mother would have wanted it? Or is it basically a complete loss at this point? Thank you, and sorry for how long this post is. I greatly appreciate anyone’s time.