Another day of interesting estate-related stories.
As some in Congress continue efforts for the government takeover of the American health care industry, the New York Post had a great column yesterday once again highlighting the elder-hostile nature of the proposed “reforms.” Superficial explanations can and are being used, but they just don’t make sense when looking [...]
As guardianships (or conservatorships) become increasingly controversial here in Texas and across the U.S., similar stories are surfacing out of the United Kingdom. Two recent articles detailed complaints surrounding the Court of Protection, a U.K. judicial venue established to “hear cases involving people who become unable to look after their own affairs but have not [...]
John Graziano leaves hospital two years after car wreck with Nick Hogan
Drew Harwell
September 10, 2009
St. Petersburg Times
http://www.tampabay.com/news/john-graziano-leaves-hospital-two-years-after-car-wreck-with-nick-hogan/1034797
TAMPA — John Graziano, the Iraq War veteran who suffered severe brain damage while riding in a car with wrestling star Hulk Hogan’s son, Nick Bollea, is now home after two years at the James A. Haley VA Medical [...]
Where there’s a will…there’s a war: Why does the death of a parent so often trigger vicious, lifelong family feuds?
Keren Smedley
October 19, 2009
The Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1221361/Where-theres–theres-war-Why-does-death-parent-trigger-vicious-lifelong-family-feuds.html
Arriving for a family Christmas a few years ago, we were stunned to be greeted by my mother-in-law brandishing a packet of coloured stickers.
‘Have a look around the house and pop [...]
Not so happy ever after…plucked as babies from an orphanage by an Italian princess, but now they’re at war over the family’s £1bn fortune
Barbara Davies
October 24, 2009
The Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1222348/Not-happy–plucked-babies-orphanage-Italian-princess-theyre-war-familys-1bn-fortune.html?ITO=1490&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=pingfm
An icy atmosphere has descended across the vast marble halls of the Palazzo Doria in Rome of late. Amid the Renaissance cloisters, the scent of lemon trees [...]