Democrats Get Cheshire Lawyer To Fill Probate Race Vacancy Former Council Chairman Replaces Bryan Meccariello, Who Withdrew After Censure Ken Byron October 1, 2010 Hartford Courant http://www.courant.com/community/southington/hc-southington-hall-1002-20101001,0,2555791.story Democrats have nominated Matthew Hall, a former chairman of the Cheshire Town Council, to replace Bryan Meccariello as their candidate for probate judge in the newly combined Southington-Cheshire Keep Reading…
Britney Spears Conservatorship To Continue September 30, 2010 RadarOnline.com http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2010/09/breaking-news-britney-spears-conservatorship-continue A judge in Los Angeles Thursday announced that the conservatorship involving Britney Spears‘ vast estate will continue as is – at least for the time being. After meeting separately in closed chambers with both Spears and with her father Jamie – who controls his daughter’s Keep Reading…
Focus on Contract Between Auction House and Public Administrator Norberto Santana, Jr. September 30, 2010 Voice of OC http://voiceofoc.org/countywide/county_government/article_dcdcf832-ccb8-11df-93bc-001cc4c002e0.html Thursday, September 30, 2010 | As county officials begin their probe into the estate dealings of Public Administrator/Public Guardian John Williams, attention is beginning to focus on LFC, a Newport Beach auction house with ties to Keep Reading…
Akron woman sentenced to life in prison Ed Meyer September 29, 2010 Akron Beacon Journal http://www.ohio.com/news/break_news/104033979.html A 21-year-old Akron woman was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison with no chance of parole after pleading guilty to aggravated murder in the 2009 plot to kill her mother. In exchange for the guilty plea from Taylor M. Keep Reading…
Backroom Wheeling, Dealing In Probate Court Continues Rick Green September 30, 2010 Hartford Courant http://blogs.courant.com/rick_green/2010/09/backroom-wheeling-dealing-in-p.html When Southington Probate Judge Bryan F. Meccariello decided it was “the best thing” for him to drop his re-election bid, it seemed like he was finally coming to his senses. In fact, he was pressured to quit. Meccariello was recently 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…
