PASCO — Lawyers for a Pasco woman accused of fatally shooting her mother are claiming their client’s rights were violated when Franklin County jail staff took legal documents from her cell during a search. Tashia Stuart’s defense team cross-examined seven members of the jail staff Friday during a hearing in Franklin County Superior Court. The Keep Reading…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — U.S. District Judge William Smith Monday ordered estate planner Joseph Caramadre held as a flight risk after rejecting his bid to withdraw his guilty pleas as meritless, bizarre and a cynical attempt to manipulate the judicial process. “It was amazing to watch a defendant perjure himself saying he perjured himself the first Keep Reading…
The Government has rejected calls to regulate will writing despite the recommendation of the Legal Services Board. After a two-year investigation, published last November, the LSB found people’s lives were being “seriously damaged” by incompetence or misdemeanour when drafting wills. It recommended the regulation of will writing, probate and estate administration by the Ministry of Keep Reading…
An elderly man “succumbed to the pressure” of losing his home to Wells Fargo and died at a court hearing fighting the bank’s wrongful foreclosure, his estate claims in court. The administrator of the estate of Larry Delassus sued Wells Fargo, Wachovia Bank, First American Corp. and others in Superior Court, for wrongful death, elder Keep Reading…
The Davidson County public guardian, whose fees are under review by a local probate judge, has double-billed clients, billed more than 24 hours in a day and earned more than $270,000 in thousands of small, individual charges for tasks such as listening to a voice mail. The Tennessean first raised questions about Jeanan Mills Stuart’s Keep Reading…
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