RightOnline 2011 will take place June 17-18 in Minneapolis, MN, and Estate of Denial™ will be there. Here’s a description of the conference: RightOnline is a project of Americans for Prosperity Foundation dedicated to advancing liberty and prosperity for all Americans through greater citizen participation online. The RightOnline Conference brings together influential new media experts, Keep Reading…
Express-News reporter John MacCormack goes to great lengths to nail down a good story, so much so that he became part of the record recently in the infamous case of the late Leo Block, a “‘poster child for elder abuse,” according to a lawsuit involving his estate. Here is how MacCormack framed the issues in Keep Reading…
An Auckland barrister and author says court cases over trusts, including family trusts, have increased by up to 500% in the past decade. The Law Commission is investigating the law on trusts, with a particular focus on the people who adminster them. Specialists say most trustees, who are often non-professionals, have no idea what they Keep Reading…
Despite years of police repeatedly refusing to publicly identify the estranged husband of slain middle school teacher Ann Fox Smith as a murder suspect, court documents acquired Friday show that investigators have considered Wilson Smith Jr. just that since her slaying in 2008. The Kennedy Middle School teacher’s body was found the afternoon of April 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…
