Seller wants to sell but is having potential legal issues

[Dillano Medina]

Hello everyone. I have a woman that wants to sell her home to

Me with an existing mortgage of about $30K and an ARV of about $70K. She wants to sell her home but she is distraught because she had a title issues with her home and the bank who holds the mortgage and when her husband died and she had a quick claim deed signed by the siblings of her husband. She originally hired a lawyer to represent her so that her bank could see that she is the rightful owner of the house but he ended up cheating her out of money by charging her money to pay the mortgage balance even tho she was paying the mortgage payments each month the whole time. He has important documents such as her birth certificate, her husbands birth certificate, his death certificate and other documents.

I wanted to know if this lawyer is legally bound to withhold these documents for her even tho he did not do much to get the bank to see that she is the rightful owner of the house. He is demanding that she pays $2000 to get her documents back which she does not have the money for.

I would love to help her in the situation but I am stuck on what to do in order to help her. She does not have much money and I would only be able to pay off her mortgage and give her $5000 cash to move which she doesn’t believe is enough.

I feel like if I could someway get those documents back for her she would be more open to taking the $5000 cash.

Does anyone know of lawyers are allowed to do that?