Sounds as though a probate reform bill was scheduled for unveiling today before the Arizona State Legislature. Indications are that this is the first of several anticipated measures. Arizona presents an opportunity for probate activists across the country to gain insight from both the legislative content and mechanics of the process ahead. EstateofDenial.com will keep Keep Reading…
Check this out from Impeachrandykennedys Blog: In an unusual turn of events, the Court of the Judiciary responded to Ginger Franklin’s appeal in her complaint vs. Judge Randy Kennedy. Click the link below to read the correspondence. This is the second investigation simultaneously being conducted by the COJ into the judicial misconduct of Judge Kennedy Keep Reading…
Judge allocates $60,000 to Etta James’ husband for care Vanessa Franko/Richard K. DeAtley January 14, 2011 The Press-Enterprise http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_News_Local_D_etta15.518a151.html The husband of recording artist Etta James was granted $60,000 by a judge Friday morning to provide for the ailing “At Last” singer’s medical care. James, a Woodcrest resident, is suffering from dementia and leukemia, among Keep Reading…
The Anna Nicole Smith case and why it matters Timothy Lee January 17, 2011 The Daily Caller http://dailycaller.com/2011/01/17/the-anna-nicole-smith-case-and-why-it-matters/ “Anna Nicole Smith.” With no gratuitous offense toward the deceased intended, the name itself constitutes an all-purpose punch line, a towering monument to the tawdry, the trivial, the frivolous. Images of intoxicated spending sprees on Rodeo Drive 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…
Anna Nicole Smith inheritance case threatens American property rights, estate planning process
Texas’ ultimate estate dispute is back this week at the U.S. Supreme Court. The almost 16-year-old case, now called Stern v. Marshall, is the continued effort of Howard K. Stern, the Anna Nicole Smith estate executor, to extract assets from the estate of J. Howard Marshall II, the Texas billionaire to whom Smith was married Keep Reading…