The High Court has ordered Tony Chan Chun-chuen to pay Chinachem Charitable Foundation around HK$30 million in interim legal costs. Chan, the former lover of late Chinachem chairwoman Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum, faces forking out a total of HK$140 million in legal fees incurred by the foundation after the court ruled that a will claiming Keep Reading…
THIS may come as a shock, but wills are public documents – and fraudsters are making easy money by plundering them for passwords and PIN numbers. More and more people include online banking and PayPal passwords in their last will and testament in a bid to help the executors of their estate. But crafty scammers Keep Reading…
LOS ANGELES (CN) – The Ray Charles Foundation seeks as much as $3.5 million from seven of the late singer’s 12 children, whom the foundation claims, in Federal Court, were unhappy with their inheritance and wrongly terminated the transfer of copyrights to dozens of Charles’ songs to the foundation. Ray Charles’s legacy and estate has Keep Reading…
MOBILE, Alabama — Grappling for two years with allegations of will fakery, longtime prominent Mobile area lawyer Richard Horne has withdrawn from his cases in the last few months, blaming memory loss. His memory problem is “profound,” he wrote to a federal judge, and “has reached the point where the representation of clients will be compromised Keep Reading…
Just two years ago, 80-year-old Jewell Tinnon was living comfortably in the Edgehill house she and her late husband had bought and paid for years earlier. Tucked away in the home on a cul-de-sac off 13th Avenue South were a life’s worth of possessions, her prized Sunday church clothes and her diamond rings. Parked outside 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…
