New fight over will of millionaire Family and mistress turn to state’s high court for decision on amendments Cobb alcoholic made. Bill Rankin April 14, 2009 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution http://www.ajc.com/services/content/printedition/2009/04/14/strother0414.html?cxntlid=inform_artr Lawyers for the family and mistress of an enormously successful, alcoholic car dealer Monday renewed their fight over what Harvey Strother intended to do with Keep Reading…
Court hears Hong Kong tycoon tricked into giving away fortune Sarah Vasques April 14, 2009 eFluxMedia http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_Court_hears_Hong_Kong_tycoon_tricked_into_giving_away_fortune_36923.html Hong Kong – Asia’s richest woman signed a will giving away her entire 13-billion-US-dollar fortune believing that the document was only for use in a feng shui ceremony, a court heard Tuesday. Nina Wang, who died of cancer Keep Reading…
Death Tax Gets a Stay of Execution Big Government has a partner on estate taxes: Big Insurance. Brett Joshpe April 15, 2009 National Review Online http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Yzk5NTZmODM5ZDYzNzk3OWEzZTljNzM0NWQzYjJlN2Y= The death tax has won another reprieve, and it’s not just revenue-hungry congressional appropriators and left-wing class warriors celebrating its survival: The insurance lobby, long regarded as a Republican Keep Reading…
Jury panel selection is almost finished for the upcoming trial of Anthony Marshall, son of Brooke Astor, and attorney Francis Morrissey. The two are charged with having looted nearly $200 million from Mrs. Astor’s estate. The 12 member jury has been finalized with alternates still being determined. We’ll keep you posted. Meanwhile, yesterday was a Keep Reading…
Jurors Picked in Trial of Brooke Astor’s Son John Eligon April 15, 2009 The New York Times http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/jurors-picked-in-trial-of-brooke-astors-son/ The owner of a catering business. A student working on a Ph.D in urban planning. A legal analyst for the Bloomberg Corporation. And a sociology consultant whose work includes jury consulting. They are among the nine women 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…
