HOUSTON – On a regular Thursday afternoon, on the eve of a decision in what could be a landmark case, the transgender widow of a Wharton firefighter couldn’t help but smile at her new reality. A Lifetime movie based on her life is in the works. So is a book deal, and it doesn’t end Keep Reading…
Marblehead — A Salem Superior Court judge Friday denied a pair of motions brought by Denise Rockett in the lawsuits filed against two of her sons and the trustees of a trust established by her late husband. Denise Rockett had been seeking a preliminary injunction to order Michael and Richard Rockett and trustees Eugene Nigro Keep Reading…
GENESEE COUNTY, Michigan — County Chief Probate Judge Jennie E. Barkey has been disqualified from deciding whether the in-laws of county Prosecutor David Leyton need a guardian or conservator to help them with their daily affairs. Two separate judges’ decisions from outside Genesee County resulted in Barkey being disqualified and the temporary guardians and conservators Keep Reading…
SAGINAW — The nearly century-long legal odyssey of the Wellington R. Burt estate may have come to a close on Wednesday, but not before lawyers added one last twist to a tale that’s captured international headlines. Saginaw County Chief Probate Judge Patrick McGraw ordered “full distribution” of the 19th century Saginaw lumber baron’s $110 million Keep Reading…
HENDERSONVILLE — District Attorney Jeff Hunt has ordered a criminal investigation into attorney Sam Neill’s alleged mishandling of his clients’ money. The N.C. Attorney General’s Office has agreed to handle the “probable resulting criminal prosecution” of Neill, a former candidate for Western North Carolina’s congressional seat, Hunt said. Hunt said he made the request to 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…
