Williamson County commissioners have blamed County Attorney Jana Duty in the county’s decision to pay $375,000 to settle a lawsuit involving sexual harassment allegations against a former County Court-at-Law judge, accusing Duty of misconduct in her handling of the case. The accusation was part of a list of grievances that commissioners sent this week to Keep Reading…
LOS ANGELES (CN) – The daughters and heirs of Frank and Doris Hursley, the husband-and-wife writing team who created “General Hospital,” say ABC owes them an accounting and years of royalties from the longest-running soap opera on television. Bridget Dobson, Deborah Hardy, and Polly Keusnik say ABC used Hollywood accounting to cheat them of their Keep Reading…
Almost 200 former silicosis clients of renowned Houston attorney John O’Quinn are now alleging the deceased lawyer’s firm improperly charged expenses and continues to hold on to their settlement funds. Plaintiff Tory House and 186 others filed a legal malpractice suit against The O’Quinn Law Firm, John M. O’Quinn & Associates LLP, the estate of Keep Reading…
We’ve previously reported on a Houston area dispute that centers on the estate of Thomas Trevino Araguz III. Araguz, a volunteer firefighter, was killed in the line of duty in July 2010. Whether Araguz’s two sons should receive an estimated $600,000 in benefits resulting from their father’s death or else split that money with his Keep Reading…
NEW ORLEANS — More than 80 years ago, the Orleans Levee Board took thousands of acres on the east bank of Plaquemines Parish to build a spillway. Landowners were forced to surrender their homes. Their town, called Bohemia, was wiped off the map. The so-called Bohemia Spillway was never built, but the land turned out 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…
