It’s a contrast to the instructions spelled out in Brown’s will and trust filed less than a month after his death on Christmas Day 2006, but lawyers said they’re done fighting over what many say is very little remaining cash. Evidently, going into court and raising enough hell is one method for obtaining an asset Keep Reading…
James Brown survivors await settlement over estate Katrina A. Goggins January 30, 2009 Associated Press http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090130/ap_en_ce/james_brown;_ylt=AocGzODbJRiCuHAMJEX06V9X24cA COLUMBIA, S.C. – James Brown’s family could walk out of court on Friday with a brand new deal. If approved by a judge in South Carolina, a settlement over the late soul singer’s estate would end a two-year legal Keep Reading…
Steven Rondos, a lawyer appointed by the court to protect disabled and incapacitated clients, including victims of medical malpractice and personal injury cases, is now accused of stealing “potentially millions” of dollars from those clients. This is another example of an Involuntary Redistribution of Assets (IRA) via trusts, wills and guardianships case often characterized by Keep Reading…
Lawyer Is Accused of Stealing Disabled People’s Assets He Was Assigned to Protect John Eligon January 29, 2009 The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/nyregion/29lawyer.html?_r=1&em Steven Rondos was supposed to help people with mental and physical illnesses care for their money. Instead, prosecutors said Wednesday, in the last seven years he helped himself to their money, stealing Keep Reading…
Steven Malanga is a favorite columnist and he has an interesting article about the evolution and interconnection of free markets, work ethics and religion. He discusses how theologian John Wesley observed that paradoxically “wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion.” Malanga further expounds: Today, we seem to be Keep Reading…
Estate of Denial® provides news, analysis and commentary on abusive practices occurring in probate courts and via probate instruments (wills, trusts, guardianships, powers of attorney). We provide original perspective to educate the public regarding this growing threat to both individual freedoms and property rights.An estate lawyer accused of a “wrongful scheme” to steer money to himself from the estates of the late June M. Farrington and her surviving brother will pay back $410,000 as part of a settlement. Estate lawyer Stephen M. Newman also resigned as executor and trustee of all of the estates and trusts he set Keep Reading…
Shannon Price failed to prove that she and Gary Coleman had a common-law marriage after their 2009 divorce. Fourth District Judge James R. Taylor ruled Monday that while Price had lived in the former “Diff’rent Strokes” star’s home after their marriage ended, the relationship failed to meet the state’s standard for a common-law marriage. “There Keep Reading…
Police Detective Jason Takacs has two thick files filled with paperwork supporting charges that a local deli owner bilked three elderly siblings of more than $200,000. Takacs credits cooperation among police, People’s United Bank, the Fairfield Probate Court and a forensic accountant from the chief state’s attorney’s office with the Thursday arrest of Carmella Jamshidian, Keep Reading…
Here’s more big government “smoke and mirrors” from the state of Texas. In watching media postings across the country, it’s highly trendy to decry the need to protect the elderly and the vulnerable. It makes people feel good to think “someone” is out there with an eye on things. Problem comes in that those “someones” Keep Reading…
Two of Don Barden’s siblings have alleged “gross irregularities” in the handling of the late casino mogul’s estate, including a potentially phony trust agreement. “It quite simply appears to be a fraud,” Farmington Hills attorney Steven Cohen charged in court papers last month. He represents Helen Robinson and Douglas Barden, who are challenging the validity Keep Reading…
