NORTON: A Norton attorney who was entertaining the idea that he was incompetent to stand trial on public indecency charges continued to represent at least one client in Summit County Probate Court. In November, Thomas L. Walkley was retained by a 70-year-old woman to defend her against a motion by her niece, who wanted her Keep Reading…
ELLSWORTH — A Surry man pleaded no contest Friday in Ellsworth District Court to practicing law without a license. Frank Walker, 71, was sentenced to a 30-day suspended jail sentence and a year of administrative supervision. The requirements of the year of supervision include that Walker refrain from the practice of law including drafting probate Keep Reading…
While “go home, go the hell home and don’t ever show yourself here again” might be our fantasy response as a Supreme Court Justice to those working on behalf of the Anna Nicole Smith estate’s neverending pursuit of the J. Howard Marshall II estate, who can predict what will happen next. We reported yesterday on Keep Reading…
MILFORD — Days after police issued an arrest warrant for a Stratford woman accused of violating a court order by taking her 81-year-old mother, the founder of a well-known health foods store, from Connecticut to Florida, the pair was located in West Palm Beach, police said. Dolores Gray, 81, who suffers from dementia and other Keep Reading…
Norwich accountant F. Robert LaSaracina is expected to enter a guilty plea today in his ongoing federal fraud and money-laundering case. A hearing has been scheduled for 1 p.m. at U.S. District Court in Hartford for a “waiver of indictment and guilty plea proceeding” before U.S. District Judge Christopher F. Droney, according to the U.S. 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…
