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…
NEW YORK (AP) — Disgraced former New York comptroller Alan Hevesi, awaiting sentencing for his role in influence-peddling at the state pension fund, is in the hospital for an unspecified condition, a judge said Monday. Meanwhile, the case has been transferred to another judge, and the next court date is April 4. The judge’s friendships Keep Reading…
The Arizona Senate Appropriations committee is hearing HB 2424 today. We were in Austin yesterday (see related post) attending a hearing with the Texas legislature and unfortunately didn’t get to put out advance notice on this date. HB 2424 addresses abusive Arizona probate practices identified in the last years as victims became vocal and the Keep Reading…
One of EoD’s regular readers, Pat, offers new perspective on the integrity of trusts and the holding of assets: The problem of beneficiaries getting paid may well be because the trust was a sham “created only to steal the assets” of the elder. If a corporation is able to obtain a signature on the dotted Keep Reading…
Brooke Astor’s 86-year-old swindling son made his latest bid today to remain at liberty, filing appeal papers that largely echo arguments already rejected last year by his trial judge. Since his December, 2009 sentencing — he got one-to-three years prison for stealing millions from the Alzheimer’s-stricken philanthropist — Anthony Marshall has remained free, pending 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…
