Victoria Hopper: I Won’t Live Around Horse Crap TMZ Staff September 27, 2010 TMZ.com http://www.tmz.com/2010/09/27/dennis-hopper-victoria-hopper-estate-move-venice-mansion-brentwood-horse-stable-divorce-died-dead/ Victoria Hopper is currently living on Dennis’ $6 million Venice compound but his trust — which includes Dennis’ eldest daughter Marin — wants to sell the property. A source close to Victoria says the trust has no legal right to Keep Reading…
At Steinbeck’s Getaway as Heirs’ Feud Revives Corey Kilgannon September 23, 2010 The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/nyregion/24steinbeck.html?_r=1 SAG HARBOR, N.Y. — Many things about the little house at the end of a point jutting into a cove of Noyac Bay have not changed in the 50 years since John Steinbeck set out from here with Keep Reading…
The Court of Protection – continuing complaints Moira Sofaer of 1 Mitre Court Buildings considers recent developments concerning the Court of Protection (no date listed) Family Law Week http://www.familylawweek.co.uk/site.aspx?i=ed66566 The newly constituted Court of Protection has had a somewhat traumatic birth. Flaws in the Court of Protection (CoP) were highlighted in a negative press campaign Keep Reading…
Thanks to our friends in Arizona for alerting us to a new section of The Arizona Republic’s web site entitled Probate Court: A Troubled System. The site describes how The Republic’s Maricopa County Probate Court investigation began in 2008 when columnist Laurie Roberts learned about the case of R.B. Sleeth, a then 79-year-old man locked Keep Reading…
Maricopa County Probate Court – One ward is saved – but a life’s savings is lost Laurie Roberts September 26, 2010 The Arizona Republic http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/09/24/20100924maricopa-county-probate-court-roberts.html It’s been nearly a year since I met Marie Long. She was in a nursing home for welfare cases, and the stench of urine and ammonia hit me as I 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…
