Judge Larry Puts on the Ritz Bob Norman November 30, 2010 Broward-Palm Beach New Times http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2010/11/judge_larry_seidlin_puts_on_the_ritz.php Boy, was former Broward Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin living high off the widow. A civil suit filed by Bill Scherer alleges that Seidlin — who gained notoriety as the judge in the Anna Nicole Smith hearings and reportedly has a Keep Reading…
The American Family Business Foundation (AFBF) has released a new Issue Brief: “Life Insurance Cash Cow: An Issue Brief on the Hidden Side of Estate Tax Lobbying,” written by Tim Carney, an award-winning investigative journalist and Senior Political Columnist with the Washington Examiner, and AFBI President Dick Patten. The brief documents the life insurance industry’s Keep Reading…
Judges Make List of Top 10 High-Paying Jobs With No Future Debra Cassens Weiss November 29, 2010 ABA Journal http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/judges_make_list_of_top_10_high-paying_jobs_with_no_future If you are intent on landing a judgeship, you may want to think again. CBS Moneywatch has compiled a list of the top 10 high-paying jobs with no future, and judges are first on the 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…
