High street banks have agreed to review their will-writing services amid fears bereaved families are being overcharged by around £40m a year. Many banks offer what appear to be good value services for as little as £100, while some provide it free as part of VIP accounts. However, they then cash in by recommending that Keep Reading…
Efforts are underway to change the election of Henry County’s Probate Court Judge in 2012, to a non-partisan vote. The Henry County Board of Commissioners (BOC) unanimously supported the proposed change, during a called meeting Monday. Henry County Probate Judge Kelley Powell, along with the Henry County Elections Director Janet Shellnutt, urged the change. Powell Keep Reading…
SOUTHINGTON – New Britain accountant Alan Jonas disappeared in early February 2010, according to his wife. He showed up again later in the month and was admitted to the Institute of Living in Hartford for depression, according to police affidavits. At about the same time, authorities had begun to close in on Jonas in three Keep Reading…
MARION – Several college students and a local church are among those left wondering what happened to a local trust fund that has provided them with money since the late 1980s. Five charitable beneficiaries and Marion Harding High School, which serves in a custodial role for student scholarship recipients, received letters from Robert Nemo, attorney Keep Reading…
Seventy-one million. That number serves as the driving force behind efforts in South Carolina and across the nation to improve the way the courts deal with elderly abuse. It is the estimate of how many Americans will be 65 or older by the year 2030 — double the number today. And that rapid increase starts 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…
