The economic and social harm which unbridled, limitless entitlement mentalities create for individuals as well as within families, governments or any other type functioning (or at least attempting to function) societal entities is an ongoing theme of Estate of Denial®. With that, this blog post out of Canada illustrates a new level of outrageous Keep Reading…
It’s a lawsuit that mirrors the famous battery commercial … it just keeps going and going and going. After a three-hour-and-40-minute executive session Monday, Kaufman County Commissioners took no action regarding a lawsuit that has been in the court system since the mid 1990s. “Jo Ann Combs v. Kaufman County, et al” — involving a Keep Reading…
MSNBC.com Investigative Reporter Bill Dedman continues his great coverage of the battle brewing over the late Huguette Clark’s estate. While a will which excluded Clark’s family from inheriting her estimated $400 million estate was filed a month after the New York recluse’s May death, another will has now surfaced – a will written six weeks Keep Reading…
On Nov. 22, Circuit Judge Frank R. Addy, Jr., ruled in a Newberry Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed in August by Newberry resident Adele Pope. The ruling allows Attorney General (AG) Alan Wilson to continue stonewalling the release of the State’s 2010 contract under which outside counsel are suing former trustees who defended 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…
Forgiveness doctrine: Texas-size loophole for county officials’ misconduct
The “forgiveness doctrine” is a little-known Texas statute that serves as a legal loophole to provide incumbent county officials, upon re-election, a “clean slate” with regard to acts of misconduct. As incumbents across Texas prepare for the 2012 elections – including some with controversial or questionable records – voters should be aware that re-election coupled Keep Reading…