Here we are – another holiday season. At Estate of Denial® we hope to take a break from the normal grind and enjoy the company of family and friends. Some posts are scheduled to come up through the end of the year. We’ll be back in full swing come January. In the meantime, may you Keep Reading…
Sometimes when she watched her son standing outside his personal care home, Wylma Barnett thought the disabled ex-Marine looked homeless clad in his worn and raggedy clothes, though he had plenty of money in the bank. The picture seemed wrong, she thought, for a man who had served his country and whose ample assets for the last Keep Reading…
The longtime husband of terminally ill blues legend Etta James will remain as conservator of her $1-million estate, a Riverside County judge has ruled. In court documents, the singer’s son Donto James had requested appointment as temporary conservator, expressing concerns about his mother’s medical treatment and the costs of her in-home medical care. Donto James, Keep Reading…
ALBANY, GA – Two Albany sisters are charged with illegally having their mother committed to a mental facility. Prosecutors say the sisters did it because were mad that their mother threw them out of her house. Tonight felony arrest warrants have been issued for them. Prosecutors say Carrie Lee Franklin and Connie Lynn Justice, both 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…
Public corruption to be 2012 election issue (TX)
In the year since Williamson County lawsuit suggests county not so “safe” for all described that county’s strong culture of cronyism, who would have predicted Michael Morton’s exoneration of a false murder conviction and nearly 25-year wrongful incarceration would even moreso reveal the public corruption threats under which Williamson County residents appear to live. And Keep Reading…