We received this notice: KPFK (Pacifica sister station in Los Angeles) will air an hour this coming Tuesday from 2-3 pm PT featuring a roundtable composed of several victims of California conservatorship proceedings. Conservatorship may be one of the more underreported civil rights issues of our time, impacting seniors and those with an alleged incapacity. Keep Reading…
Wow! What an amazing weekend we had! After months and months of preparation, this weekend we taped our television show, Trial & Heirs: Protect Your Family Fortune! Our show will premiere in Michigan on August 9th at 8 p.m. EST and air nationally in December. PBS will also stream the broadcast online for the premiere, through Keep Reading…
In an ironic twist, Denise D’Sant Angelo – who, among other things, was found guilty of unlawful practice of law by a Santa Barbara jury in May – will represent herself in her financial elder abuse case during the sentencing phase, set for Monday. D’Sant Angelo, who already completed a term behind bars after being Keep Reading…
It’s not widely known that marriage results in the revocation of a will. As a result, unless a will is revised to reflect a new spouse, you can die “intestate” with your estate distributed according to set rules in each Canadian province. Maureen Daigle discovered this the hard way after her 64-year-old brother committed suicide Keep Reading…
MILFORD — Nearly 40 years ago Dolores Gray became a pioneer in the retail health foods field to cure her children of a variety of health issues. Now, her children are battling each other for the right to control their mother’s future. On July 3, after losing her battle in Probate Court here, Gray’s daughter, 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…
