Janalyn Bornstein entered a plea of not guilty today on criminal charges related to a roughly $800,000 estate that should have gone to the Tennessee Children’s Home. Her husband, Daryl Bornstein will be arraigned Friday in Davidson County Criminal Court on nine felony counts of theft from the estate that former Metro firefighter Raymond Simmons Keep Reading…
The long-running probate court shell game where a judge and a prominent lawyer in Southington sought to change an elderly woman’s will may be a little close to resolution. Lawyers are close to a deal that would send the matter back before a new probate judge who would consider Josephine Smoron’s estate as she intended. Keep Reading…
Dennis Hopper‘s estranged wife is accusing the late actor of taking her possessions to the grave, and now she wants them back. In documents exclusively obtained by RadarOnline.com Victoria Duffy is still battling Hopper’s Trust after his death and has now filed a lawsuit requesting the return of property she claims belongs to her. EXCLUSIVE Keep Reading…
The lawyers for Brooke Astor’s son and for a lawyer who did estate planning for her filed a lengthy appeal to their convictions on Monday. The appeals, filed with a state appellate court in Manhattan, said that the convictions of Mrs. Astor’s son, Anthony D. Marshall, and the lawyer, Francis X. Morrissey Jr., were not Keep Reading…
The Texas House Committee on Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence met yesterday and one of the bills heard was HB 1934, a bill “relating to an allowance from a decedent’s estate for devisees in and beneficiaries of a will who defend and prosecute certain proceedings relating to the will.” Text of HB 1934, sponsored by Rep. 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…
