Spend It in Vegas or Die Paying Taxes A 0% tax on carousing, but 55% on thrift. Arthur B. Laffer April 2, 2009 Wall Street Journal http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123863067877680693.html In most cases, people who inherit wealth are lucky by an accident of birth and really don’t “deserve” their inheritance any more than people who don’t inherit wealth. Keep Reading…
The incredible story of an Oregon woman named Erna Boldt as reported by Salem-News.com is a classic Involuntary Redistribution of Assets (IRA) case as a trust was used to divert Mrs. Boldt’s assets in a manner contrary to her stated intentions. Mrs. Boldt acknowledges that upon her death, her son, California investment banker Leroy Newton, Keep Reading…
Financial elder abuse is a bigger problem than the authorities can manage. BUT~ isn’t that their job? Bonnie King March 31, 2009 Salem-News.com http://www.salem-news.com/articles/march312009/elderabuse_032509.php (SANDY, Ore.) – Erna Boldt came to the U.S. in the 1950′s as a war bride. She worked all her life, creating a stable home and a financially secure future. In 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…
