A few days ago we posted a new column Media coverage highlights probate abuse challenges both here on EoD and on Examiner Austin. One of our readers e-mailed and made this point with regard to the Tarrant County legal system and its prosecution of Brandy Ann Bounds: If Brandy Bounds were in the Tarrant guardianship Keep Reading…
NEW PORT RICHEY — The legal saga of Kristen Collins Lausberg ended today. The former office manager for imprisoned attorney Jessica Miller pleaded guilty to four counts of grand theft in exchange for a sentence that includes no prison or jail time. Instead, Lausberg, 33, will serve 18 months of house arrest followed by 10 Keep Reading…
Looks like the Indian government is promoting personal responsibility. Check out this article from Patna, a district in the Indian state of Bihar. Patna: To discourage people from neglecting their parents, the state government has decided to implement the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act 2007 – the state law makes the Keep Reading…
The release of the latest Forbes 400 List of Americans is, once again, being billed as a triumph of self-made wealth. Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Larry Ellison – all self-made – topped the list, once again. And Forbes heralds that fact that “a record 70% of the Forbes listers are self-made.” Yet their announcement Keep Reading…
A California mother recently went to great lengths to obtain an inheritance from her deceased son’s special needs trust, but a court decided that her attempt went too far and awarded half of the trust to the woman’s ex-husband, even though he had not seen his son in years. Betty Crick and Louis Silveira, Sr., 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…
