For the evil-America-has-cornered-the-market-on-greed-and-corruption crowd, here’s a little reminder that greed and corruption – including through probate disputes – abounds throughout the world. Here’s a recent example from the Republic of South Africa: There is a dispute over which of veteran politician Amichand Rajbansi’s four wills is valid, according to a report on Sunday. Rajbansi’s family Keep Reading…
A New York judge on Wednesday threw out one of the first of more than a dozen lawsuits around the country that accuse law schools of advertising misleading post-graduate employment statistics. The plaintiffs, a group of nine New York Law School graduates, claimed they overpaid for their degrees, because they were led to believe, as a Keep Reading…
When courts refuse transparency as being called for below, taxpayers should question why publically-funded venues resist transparency: 3/24/12 – A Howell attorney is asking the presiding judge of Livingston County’s circuit, district and probate court systems that video recordings of court proceedings be made available to the public. Tom Kizer of the Kizer Law Firm Keep Reading…
Britney Spears has been under conservatorship for four years, and she feels that she is now ready to resume control of her life, but her medical doctors don’t think she is ready yet, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting. As previously reported, Spears was in court last Thursday with her dad Jamie Spears, and fiancé, Jason Trawick to meet with Keep Reading…
NEW YORK – The Upper East Side properties owned by the late heiress Huguette Clark hit the market early this month and her Filipina nurse will receive the bulk of the sale. Edwin Josue, a Filipino real estate broker of Halstead properties, explained that 62-year-old Filipina nurse Hadassah Peri will benefit the most from the Keep Reading…
A new dispatch from the Land of the Gimme-Gimmes and the Home of the I-Want-Mores. Wouldn’t we all like to keep our property for ourselves rather than use it for cost of living expenses like nursing home care? But that’s not the real world. And don’t think Medicaid planning is the answer! If that’s your Keep Reading…
Former Ellis County Observer website publisher Joseph G. “Joey” Dauben is free on $50,000 bond pending trial on sexual abuse of a child charges in Navarro County and unauthorized use of identifying information on his former website in Ellis County. The Ellis County Observer website, which he published from a home office on Cedar Creek Keep Reading…
JACKSON, Miss. — A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the estate of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. seeking documents and other material connected to the civil rights leader from a Mississippi TV anchor. The lawsuit was filed in September in U.S. District Court in Jackson against Howard Ballou, an anchor Keep Reading…
MOBILE, Alabama — A Baldwin County lawyer faces possible sanctions for filing a lawsuit against a lawyer even though he had filed for bankruptcy protection. Mary Beth Mantiply filed the lawsuit against lawyer Richard Horne on behalf of two women who claimed their father’s will had been altered to cut them out. The plaintiffs accused Keep Reading…
SAN SABA (March 28, 2012)–Bonnie Harkey, 85, whose body was found Monday night in a shallow grave in the bottom of a drainage ditch in Leon County, nearly 200 miles from her San Saba County home, was the victim of a murder-for-hire plot that also claimed the life of her housekeeper, Karen Johnson, according to Keep Reading…
This is a great Houston Chronicle op-ed on a situation we’ve found most interesting here in our home state of Texas: In politics, candidate residency disputes are generally the stuff of tedious civil court filings and trite campaign attack mailers. Questioning whether a person actually lives in the district in which he or she is running Keep Reading…
The Beverly Hills home where Britney Spears lived when she had her infamous meltdown and was carted away to the mental hospital is once again up or sale. The 7,453 square foot Mediterranean-style home located in the gated community of The Summit has been on and off the market since Ms. Spears purchased it in Keep Reading…
MISSING ART: Even the FBI couldn’t solve the mystery: How did a $10-million Degas masterpiece apparently stolen from Huguette Clark’s Manhattan apartment get to a wall in an H&R Block founder’s home in Kansas? As a result, the painting of a ballerina “Danseuse Faisant des Pointes” will never grace the walls of the proposed $200-million art museum in Santa Keep Reading…
Judge Tom Rickhoff, who presides over Bexar County Probate Court 2, has recused himself from a case that was the subject of my column last week. In “Probate judge is shunting aside Texas law,” I echoed a reversal by the Fourth Court of Appeals, which argued that Rickhoff was ignoring Section 883 of the Texas Keep Reading…
Personal injury lawsuits and other tort claims represent a $40 billion per year industry built upon the abuse and misuse of America’s legal system by contingency-fee lawyers. While these trial lawyers (or plaintiffs’ lawyers or personal injury lawyers) have long claimed to champion “the little guy,” their injured and uninjured plaintiffs are often drawn into 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.Detroit— The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development and its co-founder, Elaine Steele, filed court action late Tuesday accusing a Wayne County probate judge and two court-appointed lawyers of conspiracy in the long-standing battle over the estate of civil rights icon Rosa Parks. Steele’s attorney, Steven G. Cohen, added he also has filed Keep Reading…
Lee Bailey’s eurweb.com (Electronic Urban Report) has once again picked up Sue Summer’s latest article from The Newberry Observer on the questionable actions surrounding administration of James Brown’s estate. The article is introduced as follows: For those who’ve been keeping track of the James Brown probate case, or if you’re simply interested in know where Keep Reading…
Forget women! Hell hath no fury like a lawyer scorned – or at least that would seem the case as per this latest Danny Tate posting at Impeachrandykennedy’s Blog. A conservatorship (guardianship) can strip a person of their individual liberty and property rights. While Nashville musician Danny Tate admits his struggle with alcohol and drug Keep Reading…
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…
