Our favorite kinds of activists are those who know how to work an issue with style and flair – maybe adding humor, adopting an edgy writing style, using satire – something, anything more than a staid, dry presentation of information or opinion. Solicitors from Hell, a U.K.-based web site, totally fits this bill. The site Keep Reading…
Last Will and Embezzlement, set for release fall 2011, is a documentary examining the exploitation and victimization of the elderly. The project’s web site provides this description: Last Will and Embezzlement is a documentary which examines the exploitation and victimization of the elderly, inspired by the recent true-life events in the family of Starjack partner, Keep Reading…
Imagine winning the lottery without buying a ticket. It was much like that for Glenn Pore when the Fayette County retiree accepted an energy company’s offer to pay him and 10 relatives thousands of dollars to lease mineral rights beneath farmland his ancestors plowed a century ago. “I was shocked to find out that I Keep Reading…
It’s good news to hear that Tennessee Sen. Mae Beavers, R-Mt. Juliet, was appointed to lead a committee on judicial reform. With the questionable acts this site has reported on in Nashville’s probate court, we know that judicial reform is indeed needed – in Tennessee, but also in plenty of other states including our home Keep Reading…
NAPLES —A successful multimillionaire in life, Frank Blumeyer of Naples knew where every penny of his fortune would go after his death. He set up partnerships and trusts, using profits from his 30 years as an insurance company owner and his later business, Storage Inns of America, to provide for nine children, 22 grandchildren and 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.As problems with the Tennessee judiciary are a regular topic here at Estate of Denial®, this post from Memphis’ The Daily News was noted with interest: GOP Proposals Take Aim at Tennessee Courts Republicans in the Tennessee Legislature are taking a close look at the judiciary branch this year, with several proposals expected to be Keep Reading…
Courtroom cronyism is certainly a frequent factor in the abusive probate cases discussed here at Estate of Denial® . EconomicFreedom.org describes cronyism as follows: Cronyism occurs when an individual or organization colludes with government officials to get forced benefits they could not have otherwise obtained voluntarily. Those benefits come at the expense of consumers, taxpayers, Keep Reading…
In September senior assistant Attorney General (AG) C.H. Jones wrote to a Richland County court that the AG’s office was “ready and more than willing” to release a copy of the contract under which Columbia attorney Kenneth Wingate is suing former James Brown trustees, Robert Buchanan of Aiken and Adele Pope of Newberry. It now Keep Reading…
Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry has filed theft charges in two separate white-collar crime cases, he said today, in which a total of about $800,000 was stolen. In the first case, prosecutors charged Stacy H. Sheedy, an Indianapolis attorney and accountant, with three counts of theft and one count of forgery, according to a release Keep Reading…
Nearly 50 years after country star “Gentleman” Jim Reeves died in a Brentwood plane crash, a Nashville judge will settle once and for all the fate of his still-lucrative musical legacy. On Monday, a trial gets under way in Davidson County Probate Court to decide the proper division of the income from Reeves’ royalties — which Keep Reading…
