WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A Florida woman accused of arranging the killings of her millionaire hotel heir husband and her mother-in-law is trying to prevent the prosecution from using her statements to police. In a motion filed in federal court in White Plains, Narcy Novack claims the statements were made involuntarily during marathon interrogations Keep Reading…
Dec. 09–MYSTIC – Almost a year after Charles Buck was found not guilty of killing his wife, Leslie, in May 2002, her estate has withdrawn the probate action and civil suit it had filed against him alleging that he caused her death. The estate, which is managed by Leslie Buck’s brother, Richard Edmonston, has also agreed to divide the proceeds of Leslie Buck’s annuities Keep Reading…
The feud between L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt and her estranged daughter Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers looks set to continue, as Bettencourt has reportedly modified her will and left some of her fortune to a biomedical research centre. According to French magazine Le Point, French financial police, using a search warrant, found Bettencourt’s new will at her lawyer Patrice Keep Reading…
In a surprise move only days before a Dec. 15 federal court hearing on the 2000 Irrevocable Trust of music icon James Brown, his grandson Forlando Brown has fired his entire legal team. Among those sacked by Forlando are former S.C. Chief Justice Ernest Finney whose wife Frances (Davenport) is from Newberry; the law firm Keep Reading…
JACKSON, Miss. – A popular Mississippi television anchor wants a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit brought by the estate of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. that seeks documents and other material connected to the civil rights leader. The lawsuit was filed in September in U.S. District Court in Jackson against Howard Ballou, 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…
