Female participants at a symposium entitled “Women, Commercial Inheritance and Family Rule” have called for “an independent body of a judicial nature” to protect their inheritance. This body should distribute inheritance money amongst heirs according to Islamic law and should protect women against social pressure to give up their rights. They called for a distinction Keep Reading…
A year after he was convicted, a former Grand Prix motorcycle-racing champion is working to have charges of felony elder abuse thrown out and a pending restitution case resolved on the basis of what he believes to be conflict of interest in the court. His first step was completed Friday when Monterey County Superior Court Keep Reading…
The big-spending mom to twin heirs of the Doris Duke fortune has been ordered to appear in court next month to answer charges that she’s treated their trust funds as a personal piggy bank. Daisha Inman, 52, has blown more than $1 million of her 15-year-olds’ $60 million inheritance since 2010, according to court records. Keep Reading…
Marianne Blend learned she was in trouble about three weeks ago when she looked out the window of her Highland Park home and saw strangers placing a large sign in her frontyard. “They were two big men, so I didn’t go out there until they were gone,” said the 78-year-old widow. “But when I did Keep Reading…
A box of candy blew up in her face in 2010. Two years later, authorities told her they recorded her brother trying to hire a hit man to kill her and her sister. Since 2006, Vennie Wolf has fought her brother over an inheritance that spawned half a dozen criminal cases, myriad lawsuits and hundreds Keep Reading…
BAL HARBOUR, Fla. (AP) — In this upscale seaside village of about 2,500 permanent residents, the main challenges for Bal Harbour’s 30-member police force are thefts from its high-end shopping mall, speeders along Florida’s famed A1A highway and vehicle break-ins. But the department managed to rake in millions of dollars in forfeited drug proceeds by Keep Reading…
On Wednesday, May 8, the South Carolina Supreme Court ended a historic battle in the six-year war over the multi-million dollar estate of music legend James Brown. Four petitions had been filed following the Court’s February 27 decision to overturn a 2008 settlement deal by former Attorney General (AG) Henry McMaster. On Wednesday the Court Keep Reading…
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