We received this perspective suggesting that a process through which probate documents’ veracity is authenticated might help reduce fraudulent activities associated with estates. Of the cases that come and go reported upon by your web site, few seem to address the technicalities of legality by virtue of the required prescription for producing valid documents in Keep Reading…
Lawsuit reform works. Nothing underscores this point more clearly than the success of the medical liability reforms enacted by Gov. Rick Perry and the Legislature in 2003 and then ratified by voters later that year. As a result of these common-sense limits to non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases, the number of doctors applying to Keep Reading…
Loser pays; everyone wins. It is the perfect sound bite in what could be the next tort reform battle in Texas: a push to require the losing parties in litigation to pay their opponents’ legal fees. Also known as the English Rule, because of its prevalence in Britain, the loser-pays approach, advocates say, is the Keep Reading…
As we post the latest on Ed Graziano pleading no contest in a murder-for-hire case, this excerpt from a January 9 post provides background on the case and its probate abuse implications: A new story is posted about the murder-for-hire prosecution of Ed Graziano, the father of John Graziano, the young man devastatingly injured in Keep Reading…
LARGO — Edward Graziano pleaded no contest on Friday to trying to hire a hit man to kill his wife, Debra. Now he faces a sentencing hearing May 13 at which Debra is expected to testify about her fear of Graziano, who was recorded while discussing his plot against her. Under state guidelines, Graziano could 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…
