Octomom’s documentary draws distain; octuplets’ financial future in judge’s hands Bethania Palma Markus August 20, 2009 http://www.whittierdailynews.com/octuplets/ci_13172390 ORANGE – Officials from the Orange County Department of Children and Family Services said they received numerous calls from the public wanting Octomom Nadya Suleman’s children removed from their La Habra home after a two-hour documentary was broadcast Keep Reading…
Legal guardian denies Alzheimer’s patient her home and family contact Drew Harwell, Times Staff Writer August 20, 2009 St. Petersburg Times http://www.tampabay.com/news/aging/legal-guardian-denies-alzheimers-patient-her-home-and-family-contact/1029187 CLEARWATER — Carol Kinnear, a retired Belleair Elementary teacher in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, signed an update to her trust in June 2008. Her wish was clear: For the rest of Keep Reading…
Brooke Astor’s signature on legal documents couldn’t possibly be forged, says handwriting expert Melissa Grace August 20, 2009 New York Daily News http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/08/20/2009-08-20_throws_water_on_astor_will_forgery.html Brooke Astor’s signature on disputed legal documents at the heart of the swindle case against her son could not possibly have been forged, a handwriting expert testified. Defense witness Alan Robillard said Keep Reading…
What might appear as an April Fool’s joke is no laughing matter as a recent Houston Chronicle article details how the three adult children of businessman and philanthropist Henry J.N. Taub are facing a legal challenge over assets received from their late father’s estate. Mary-Ellen Conway, a former TV reporter, claims to have been Taub’s Keep Reading…
‘Death Panels’ Just A Rumor? Go Ask Ezekiel Thomas Sowell August 18, 2009 Investor’s Business Daily http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=335485082995948 There was a time when rushing a thousand-page bill through Congress so fast that no one has time to read it would have provoked public outrage. But now, this has been attempted twice in the first six months 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…
