The $100b answer Patsy Moy February 2, 2010 The Standard http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=30&art_id=93973&sid=26913547&con_type=3&d_str=20100202 And the HK$100 billion goes to … The answer will be announced in the High Court today when Justice Johnson Lam Man-hon delivers his ruling in the “Battle of the Wills” – a drama that gripped Hong Kong last year with claims of secret Keep Reading…
Badri Patarkatsishvili’s family lawyer makes a statement on Joseph Kay’s assets February 1, 2010 The Messenger Online http://www.messenger.com.ge/issues/2034_february_1_2010/2034_announcement.html Recently, several European courts have dealt with the dispute between the Estate of Badri Patarkatsishvili and his step cousin Joseph Kay. The High Court in England recently ruled that Joseph Kay is an unfit character to manage Keep Reading…
Nashville at law: Eddy Arnold paternity claim raised again E. Thomas Wood February 1, 2010 Nashvillepost.com http://www.nashvillepost.com/news/2010/2/1/nashville_at_law_eddy_arnold_paternity_claim_raised_again Aided by new lawyers and a new strategy, the California man who claims to be love child of the late country crooner Eddy Arnold is once again asking a Nashville court for a share of Arnold’s estate. Christopher 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…
Texas Bar exec board says “no” to PLI disclosure
Texas Bar exec board says “no” to PLI disclosure Lou Ann Anderson February 1, 2010 www.EstateofDenial.com With a vote of 39 to 1, the State Bar of Texas Board of Directors voted Friday to recommend to the Supreme Court of Texas that legal clients not receive additional consumer protections that would flow from “customers” being Keep Reading…