DENVER — C. Jean Stewart, who steps down at month’s end as Denver probate judge, is joining Holland & Hart’s fiduciary solutions group, the firm said today. Stewart will offer services as an appointed judge and special master, and she will provide services to the firm and its clients in many areas of trusts and Keep Reading…
Over the years, we’ve heard numerous Estate of Denial™ readers lament a lack of support from AARP for various probate abuse issues – specifically those that have elder abuse ramifications. In our experience, AARP has long been a lobbying organization with a sales arm that utilizes a perception of advocacy interests to generate a client Keep Reading…
APPLETON — A former Appleton guardian accused of stealing from elderly and disabled clients is expected to post bail after reaching a bond agreement with Outagamie County prosecutors. Judge Mark McGinnis today reduced Jeffrey M. Schend’s bond following the agreement, which required Schend to waive his right to a preliminary hearing. McGinnis reduced the $100,000 Keep Reading…
Britney Spears began her Femme Fatale tour in Sacramento on Thursday, and just like her last tour in 2009, the pop star remains under conservatorship, and RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned that won’t change this year. Britney’s father Jamie has conservatorship over his daughter and her business affairs.The conservatorship has been in place since 2008 after Keep Reading…
MEDIA, Pa., June 16 (UPI) — Relatives of a du Pont heir are challenging a will that gives the millionaire’s estate to the family of its executor, court records show. William H. du Pont and Beverly Austin du Pont Gaugger, the nephew and niece of John Eleuthere du Pont, filed documents in a Delaware County 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…
