Probate.com is a new web site described as “everything that is needed for the probate specialist, estate planner and non-lawyer involved in a proceeding who has questions.” Wanna bet? Click here to read the news release. The site is certainly slick looking and undoubtedly offers much information. Per the release, instead of asking what can Keep Reading…
MADISON — A local attorney recently had his license suspended after three complaints were filed by his clients alleging that he didn’t adequately complete his legal responsibilities and that he paid himself excessive or inappropriate legal fees. Clifford Fritzell III practiced family law at 23 Woodland Road in Madison until September when his license was Keep Reading…
Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced in a news release today that the former public administrator of Jasper County has been indicted by a federal grand jury for a nearly $200,000 fraud scheme in which she illegally obtained federal Medicaid and Social Security benefits for her wards, then used Keep Reading…
Britney Spears may be engaged to Jason Trawick, but unless her father approves of the two getting married, the couple’s marriage won’t be legal. That’s because Britney Spears has been in a conservatorship since 2008, meaning she is legally bound to ask her father’s permission for everything from giving depositions to buying a house… to getting Keep Reading…
NEW YORK, Dec 14 (Reuters) – In a highly unusual public judicial-conduct proceeding, arguments began Wednesday in the case against Bronx Surrogate Lee Holzman, who is charged with approving excessive attorneys’ fees for a lawyer in the public administrator’s office and for failing to supervise the operations of the office, which handles the estates of people Keep Reading…
Being an effective activist can make one a target. That’s the topic of a new Killeen exposes campaign finance filing error by PAC in recall election column we just posted at Examiner.com. Hope you’ll check it out!
While stories about wills disputes between new spouses and children from an earlier marriage abound, cases involving sibling rivalry are more vigorously fought, new research suggests.In half of all the disputed wills in NSW the study examined, legal costs were disproportionately large, amounting to more than 25 per cent of the value of the estate. Keep Reading…
A post yesterday discussed “headcount value” with regard to guardianships. Below is a portion of an incredible post from Fleming & Curti PLC out of Arizona. It makes the case that such value indeed exists and, like any other business resource, can be “worked” to maximize its profitability. The Washington mother and son guardianship team Keep Reading…
OAKLAND (CBS / AP) — A New York attorney will spend time in federal prison for a scheme in which he transferred more than $1 million from a dead Bay Area friend’s bank accounts to his own. As part of a plea agreement, Igor Purlantov was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty Keep Reading…
MONTREAL – A judge has weighed in with a clear, unequivocal decision in a legal dispute over who should inherit late boxer Arturo Gatti’s money. The winner: his widow, Amanda Rodrigues. The verdict Friday came after a deeply personal legal battle over the $3.4 million fortune, which pitted Gatti’s widow against his mother and youngest Keep Reading…
Money or other financial benefit is often the motivation for questionable guardianships. While stories of people with assets seeing their individual liberty and property hijacked in this manner abound, Estate of Denial® has long maintained that other individuals with no apparent wealth are also at risk of being targeted for what we call “headcount value.” Keep Reading…
THE premiere of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo was a suitably high-profile occasion. This is, after all, the long-awaited screen version of what has become a publishing phenomenon almost on a par with the Harry Potter series. Author Stieg Larsson never knew how successful he would be as he died just before his first Keep Reading…
Tommaso, a four-year-old, one-time stray from Rome, is thought to have become the world’s richest cat. Since the death of his 94-year-old mistress last month, he has become a property magnate — or perhaps mognate — with flats and houses worth an estimated €10m scattered from Milan in the north to Calabria in the south. Keep Reading…
In a WealthCounsel Quarterly post Blood & Money: Why Families Fight Over Inheritance, P. Mark Accettura, J.D., lists what he sees as five reasons of why families end up in estate disputes: There are five basic reasons why families fight in matters of inheritance: First, humans are genetically predisposed to competition and conflict; second, our Keep Reading…
BadBiz UK is a United Kingdom consumer complaints reporting web site and publication, by consumers, for consumers against rip off and scam companies, to file and document complaints about companies or individuals. Estate of Denial® routinely characterizes those impacted by Involuntary Redistribution of Assets (IRA) actions as legal consumers so what a great fit so 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…
