Warner Bros. is hoping that Zack Snyder can do for “Superman” what Christopher Nolan did for “Batman.” But the studio’s real-life tangle over the rights to the Man of Steel risks resembling another Nolan narrative: “Inception.” The way things are going, less than a year after Snyder’s “Man of Steel” is released in 2012 the Keep Reading…
THE actress Farrah Fawcett was under full-time nurse supervision at her high-rise condominium on Wilshire Boulevard’s Golden Mile, floating in and out of consciousness, when NBC made its demand. The network had bid $1.5 million for a cinéma vérité-style film Ms. Fawcett was making of her struggle with late-stage cancer, and with the gossip media Keep Reading…
Probate court judges in the state are elected for a four-year term, work part-time hours and usually also have a private law practice. Until a recent reorganization, they were paid a percentage of the value of the estates they processed. There have been several high-profile cases in recent years of probate judges accused of abusing Keep Reading…
LOS ANGELES – Survivors of actor Charles Bronson today sued Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer asking for allegedly unpaid residuals, including from home videos, generated from the 1970s films “St Ives” and “Telefon.” The lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on behalf of the Bronson Marital Trust and the Bronson Survivor’s Trust. It alleges Keep Reading…
Trust and estate planning often comes down to three questions: Who gets what? How do you minimize taxes? And, once a trust has been set up, who is in control? Unfortunately, it’s easy for a family to bungle any one of the three. That’s especially so if you don’t have a professional on board as 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…
