The poet Edith Lovejoy Pierce said this of New Year’s Eve: We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day. At Estate of Denial® we have grave concerns regarding the state of our Keep Reading…
The introduction of a death tax, to pay for the increased scrutiny of doctors by a new medical examiner corps, could be delayed as councils resist collecting a national charge levied on bereaved families. Ministers have been surprised by the ferocity of opposition from local government. as Councillors fear they will become scapegoats for fees in a Keep Reading…
Residents opposed to a $32.5 million settlement that allows the sale of Little Neck, a summer cottage colony owned by a Colonial-era land trust set up to benefit the Ipswich public schools, have asked a probate court judge to block the agreement, saying it does not do enough to protect public school children. A motion Keep Reading…
Timothy Cole spent 14 hellish years incarcerated for a rape he did not commit. Sustaining him throughout his ordeal were the letters he sent and received from a loving family that believed in his claims of innocence and fought for his eventual, posthumous exoneration. “I will continue to wait patiently for this unfortunate matter to resolve Keep Reading…
Though currently serving a 50-year prison sentence, Scott Rothstein spent the last weeks in Florida sitting through days of depos in which he’s reported to have disclosed information regarding additional parties involved with his $1.2 billion investment fraud. The article prominently mentions individuals affiliated with Rothstein’s law firm, Rothstein, Rosenfeldt and Adler, and brings to 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…
