The existence of an attorney-client relationship and privilege is not dependent on the client himself paying the attorney. The relationship and the privilege may exist even though the attorney's fees are paid by a third party. Dole v. Milonas, 889 F.2d 885, 888 n. 5 (9th Cir.1989); United States v. Edwards, 39 F.Supp.2d 716, 722 (M.D.La.1999). 7 . Most of the reported cases addressing the issue are discussed and analyzed in I. Labovitz and Wm. Labovitz, Attorney Client Privilege in Individual Bankruptcy Cases: An Emerging Qxymoron, 104 COM. L.J. 301 (1999); see also, Miller, 247 B.R. at 709. 8 . Courts have cited the Eighth Circuit's opinion in Citibank, N.A. v. Andros, 666 F.2d 1192 (8th Cir.1981) to support both sides of the debate. See In re Smith, 24 B.R. 3, 4 (Bankr.S.D.Fla.1982) (<HOLDING>); In re Silvio De Lindegg Ocean Dev. of
holding that the attorneyclient privilege always passes to the trustee even if the debtor is an individual holding that an appurtenant easement is an incident of the estate granted and passes with it holding that the debtor in possession could utilize the strongarm powers of the trustee to avoid an unperfected security interest even though the debtor knew of the interest prior to bankruptcy because the two are distinct entities and the debtor in possessions responsibility is to preserve the estates assets for the benefit of the creditors holding that where individual held title to property as trustee but gave mortgage to bank in her individual capacity a title reference on the mortgage to the deed into her as trustee provided constructive notice that the mortgage was supposed to be from the individual as trustee or at the least that the holder of a subsequent interest would not be a bona fide purchaser holding that wjhile the administrator has a right of possession until the estate is settled    the property passes to the heirs