Harry Abrams, who’s arraigned on 64 counts of grand larceny, said he didn’t scam sick pal, 98 Melissa Grace November 20, 2010 New York Daily News http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2010/11/20/2010-11-20_claims_he_didnt_scam_sick_pal_98.html A silver-haired financial consultant denied Friday he swiped a fortune from a friend – a childless 98-year-old who must use a wheelchair. Harry Abrams, 76, was arraigned in Keep Reading…
An EoD reader from California sent us this observation based on recent postings: Reading the sufferings of Ginger Franklin, brings to mind, something I find often overlooked and so important in many cases. My parents created a Trust and gave me Durable Power of Attorney for their health and finances along with the Trustee position. Keep Reading…
Phase 1 Of Probate Reform Court Consolidations Voters Chose Fewer Judges For Larger, Modernized Districts November 16, 2010 Hartford Courant http://articles.courant.com/2010-11-16/news/hc-ed-probate-reform-1116-20101116_1_probate-court-multitown-districts-josephine-smoron-estate Election Day was a red-letter occasion for Connecticut’s ancient probate court system — a costly and cumbersome enterprise that had staved off reform impulses for decades — and the thousands of people it serves Keep Reading…
We’ve posted the WSMV-TV Nashville story about Ginger Franklin and her struggle for freedom from conservatorship by Nashville attorney Jeanan Mills Stuart as imposed by the Davidson County (TN) probate court. Nancy Amons has likely learned much about the controversy that can surround probate cases with her coverage over the last few months of the Keep Reading…
Woman Fights For Control Of Her Life Ginger Franklin’s Rights Stripped In Guardianship Nancy Amons November 19, 2010 WSMV-TV Nashville http://www.wsmv.com/news/25831353/detail.html Tears filled Ginger Franklin’s eyes as she returned to the Nashville condo she hasn’t lived in for 2-1/2 years. “I’m trying not to cry,” Franklin said. It’s a house she lost when her life 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…
