The Estate Tax can spell the end of an old family business John Anthony February 15, 2009 Arkansas Democrat-Gazette http://www.nodeathtax.org/article/the-estate-tax-can-spell-the-end-of-an-old-family-business LITTLE ROCK — The Estate Tax kills jobs. It kills the companies that provide jobs. In the process, it kills towns and communities, particularly those in rural areas dependent upon the land and local industry. Keep Reading…
Yesterday’s post discussed how secrecy with regard to sealed court records can cover or even aid further bad acts by Involuntary Redistribution of Assets (IRA) perpetrators. IRA cases are usually defined as asset looting via a will, trust, power of attorney or guardianship. An enterprising looter using one of these instruments and capable of operating Keep Reading…
Your Courts, Their Secrets A son struggles to reveal how lawyer was treating his mother Maureen O’Hagan, Cheryl Phillips and Justin Mayo March 15, 2007 The Seattle Times http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/yourcourtstheirsecrets/2003459413_guardianship03m.html Dean Libey sat in the courtroom, stunned. He couldn’t believe that a judge would even consider hiding this file away. For more than a year, Libey Keep Reading…
We received this letter below from a Washington state man who says his mother’s court-appointed guardian failed to ensure her receipt of adequate physical care and also was responsible for excessive expenditures which in no way benefited her. Dean Libey was prominently featured in a 2007 article published by The Seattle Times. The introductory Your Keep Reading…
Your Courts, Their Secrets The cases your judges are hiding from you Ken Armstrong, Justin Mayo and Steve Miletich March 5, 2006 The Seattle Times http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002845009_seal05m.html Four years ago, a lawsuit was filed in King County Superior Court, alleging that a medical device was unsafe. A woman using it wound up in a coma. You’d 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…
