(CBS News) Elizabeth Taylor left more than her historic Hollywood legacy when she died Wednesday at 79. It’s believed she was worth between $600 million and $1 billion, most of it, according to Bloomberg Businessweek Senior Editor Diane Brady, from the side of her few fans realized had grown so big – Liz Taylor, businesswoman. Keep Reading…
Congratulation to the Houston Chronicle’s Lise Olsen for being named a Texas “Star Reporter of the Year” by the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors. While writing on many timely topics, Lise has done a great job over the past years exposing abusive probate actions. At a time when the common response to estate irregularities was Keep Reading…
Los Angeles (CNN) — Mickey Rooney must revive his show business career soon or he will die “in very short order,” the lawyer appointed to oversee the 90-year-old actor’s affairs told CNN Friday. “He’s available, he’s marketable and we’re going to get him working,” said Michael Augustine. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Reva Goetz Keep Reading…
There were many rules observed behind the towering hedges and high iron gates at 700 Nimes Road in Bel Air, Los Angeles. The green velvet drapes in the master bedroom were to be opened by the gloved hand of the French butler only when the lady of the house said she was ready. If she Keep Reading…
LOS ANGELES – An attorney for the parents of Bruce Beresford-Redman told a judge today her clients are close to proving the validity of a will they say represents the wishes of the former “Survivor” producer’s slain wife. An investigator working on behalf of David and Juanita Beresford-Redman thinks he can find a cook who 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…
