CHILTON — Police say a Chilton man who had the authority to handle the finances of a man who is medically impaired stole thousands of dollars from him to pay for vehicles and other goods last year. Wayne E. Mohnsam Jr., 42, will make an initial appearance Nov. 16 in Calumet County Court on one Keep Reading…
Caroline Cammack, a former Denver Probate Court employee who alleged the court was failing to protect vulnerable adults from abuse, has settled a civil case against the court for $10,000. Cammack, who has been unemployed since the court fired her two years ago, said Tuesday that the settlement falls far short of the losses she Keep Reading…
Mike Schaefer enjoys telling stories about William Donald Schaefer — how he met the Baltimore mayor during the 1980s, how decades later they became regular companions for meals in Annapolis and Baltimore, how he visited the legendary Maryland politician on Christmas Day last year at the Catonsville retirement community where he lived. The 73-year-old man, who is not Keep Reading…
An adopted son at war with his parents’ natural children over his £70,000 inheritance faces losing it to them because their mother and father signed each other’s wills by mistake. Orphan Terry Marley was ‘unofficially adopted’ at the age of 15. He spent the next 30 years living with Alfred and Maureen Rawlings and caring Keep Reading…
I wanted to shout out, sitting in the dignified, ornate chambers of the state Supreme Court Monday morning, as a string of lawyers debated what should be a basic right. If somebody you have hired absolutely ruins your life — shouldn’t you be able to sue them? And yet, the Supreme Court is being asked 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.Newnan accountant Mayo Royal Jr. was sentenced to serve five years in prison and a total of 15 years on probation after pleading guilty Monday to seven counts of theft by taking and one count of false swearing in connection with Royal’s mismanagement of the estate of the late Edgar B. Hollis. The terms of Keep Reading…
We are glad to see the egregious legal case of fellow Texan Jeff Baron get new exposure from a reputable national media outlet. Barbara Hollingworth of The Washington Examiner reports: When Jeff Baron came to Washington this month, he was wearing a borrowed suit. Once upon a time, the Internet pioneer — who taught himself Keep Reading…
Is Joey Dauben Being Railroaded in Corsicana? is the question recently asked by D Magazine Editor in Chief/Founder Wick Allison. It’s also a question deservedly, legitimately asked. Here’s Allison’s post: Dauben, the iconoclastic publisher we profiled last March, has been sitting in the Navarro County lockup since he was arrested on molestation charges in December. He Keep Reading…
This is difficult to imagine, but it is true. An aging parent begins to decline. She needs care. She comes to depend on her adult child. Polly is 97 and has only one daughter, Vicky. Vicky moved in with her mother to become Polly’s caregiver about a year ago. Recently, Vicky apparently decided that her Keep Reading…
NEWARK, N.J. — The mother of late boxer Arturo Gatti’s daughter can’t sue his widow for wrongful death in New Jersey, a judge ruled in dismissing the lawsuit Friday. Erika Rivera, a central New Jersey resident, filed the lawsuit last fall on behalf of then-5-year-old Sofia Bella Gatti. The suit blames Gatti’s widow, Amanda Rodrigues Keep Reading…
