Secret court open to public gaze after Independent campaign Cahal Milmo May 14, 2010 independent.co.uk http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/secret-court-open-to-public-gaze-after-iindependenti-campaign-1973014.html A dispute over the guardianship of a severely autistic piano virtuoso on the brink of a potentially lucrative music career became the first case to be heard in public yesterday in a hitherto closed corner of the British justice Keep Reading…
Greetings from Nashville! We’re here covering the Danny Tate concert and hearing. The AP story from yesterday is generating a lot of new interest in the case. Click here to read about the new uptick of publicity.
Pasco judge says plea deal too soft for woman in theft case Molly Moorhead May 22, 2010 St. Petersburg Times http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/criminal/former-paralegal-accused-of-stealing-comes-to-court-with-20000/1096609 NEW PORT RICHEY — Kristen Collins came to court Friday with $20,000, a substantial portion of the money authorities say she and her former boss stole from their clients. The amount was enough to Keep Reading…
Break in Bitter Family Feud Craig Karmin May 19, 2010 The Wall Street Journal http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703957904575253012051696110.html A long-running family feud over a vast portfolio of Manhattan property moved closer to resolution on Tuesday when a New York court ruled that Neil Bender is fit to run William Gottlieb’s billion-dollar estate. The appellate court ruling cleared a 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…
Danny Tate conservatorship cases sees increased media activity with AP coverage
People across this country are increasingly finding their rights threatened through a variety of probate instruments and proceedings, but the conservatorship case (known as guardianships in other states) of Nashville musician Danny Tate is a cautionary tale of which folks in Austin, with its own concentration of musicians, should be aware. While Danny Tate’s case Keep Reading…