Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott told Tarrant County officials in an opinion this week that local courts do not have the authority to bypass appointing a guardian for mentally impaired jail detainees who refuse to take medication. The Tarrant County district attorney’s office had asked Abbott’s office in August whether the Texas Health and Safety Keep Reading…
BRONSON — As family members, managers and lawyers continued to bicker in open court Friday, Circuit Court Judge Robert Roundtree delayed for one week the sale of the publishing rights to some of the late singer Bo Diddley’s songs, which were kept from him or he sold throughout his life but have started returning to Keep Reading…
From The Arizona Republic: As a senior citizen, I wish to congratulate The Arizona Republic and columnist Laurie Roberts on their investigative reporting concerning the Probate Court fiasco and desperate need for reform. I believe the recently passed laws to reform Probate Court will end the reign of the bloodsuckers and crooks involved in this Keep Reading…
As Joan Rivers would say, can we talk? About increasing the Social Security retirement age, that is. Rivers, of course, is the 77-year-old Botoxified comedienne who clawed her way to a 2009 Celebrity Apprentice win. (She raised less for charity, but Donald Trump admired her tenacity.) Rivers’ reality TV show with daughter Melissa has been Keep Reading…
There is a broad public consensus against frivolous lawsuits. Yet a fundamental foundation to our individual freedom and the free enterprise system is open access to courts for redress of wrongs. Finding the right balance between free access to open courts versus the elimination of frivolous claims has been the difficult challenge of the tort 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.As problems with the Tennessee judiciary are a regular topic here at Estate of Denial®, this post from Memphis’ The Daily News was noted with interest: GOP Proposals Take Aim at Tennessee Courts Republicans in the Tennessee Legislature are taking a close look at the judiciary branch this year, with several proposals expected to be Keep Reading…
Courtroom cronyism is certainly a frequent factor in the abusive probate cases discussed here at Estate of Denial® . EconomicFreedom.org describes cronyism as follows: Cronyism occurs when an individual or organization colludes with government officials to get forced benefits they could not have otherwise obtained voluntarily. Those benefits come at the expense of consumers, taxpayers, Keep Reading…
In September senior assistant Attorney General (AG) C.H. Jones wrote to a Richland County court that the AG’s office was “ready and more than willing” to release a copy of the contract under which Columbia attorney Kenneth Wingate is suing former James Brown trustees, Robert Buchanan of Aiken and Adele Pope of Newberry. It now Keep Reading…
Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry has filed theft charges in two separate white-collar crime cases, he said today, in which a total of about $800,000 was stolen. In the first case, prosecutors charged Stacy H. Sheedy, an Indianapolis attorney and accountant, with three counts of theft and one count of forgery, according to a release Keep Reading…
Nearly 50 years after country star “Gentleman” Jim Reeves died in a Brentwood plane crash, a Nashville judge will settle once and for all the fate of his still-lucrative musical legacy. On Monday, a trial gets under way in Davidson County Probate Court to decide the proper division of the income from Reeves’ royalties — which Keep Reading…
