Posts Tagged ‘property rights’

Bettencourt former accountant ‘helped daughter in fight for fortune’
Henry Samuel in Paris
September 3, 2010
Telegraph.co.uk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7980066/Bettencourt-former-accountant-helped-daughter-in-fight-for-fortune.html
Claire Thibout, an accountant for Liliane Bettencourt for 10 years, received a letter from Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers dated 11 July 2007 promising to “help” her should she be fired for speaking out about her mother’s allegedly rapacious and manipulative entourage – in particular [...]

Appeals court sets hearing in Jackson estate case
Anthony McCartney, Associated Press
September 3, 2010
The Centre Daily Times
http://www.centredaily.com/2010/09/02/2186291/appeals-court-sets-hearing-in.html
An appeals court has scheduled a hearing for lawyers for the father of Michael Jackson to argue that he deserves a role in decisions involving his son’s multimillion dollar estate.
The Second District Court of Appeal said Thursday the appeal by [...]

Wealthy 104-year-old heiress Huguette Clark gives her longtime nurse millions
James Fanelli/Dave Goldiner
September 2, 2010
New York Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/09/02/2010-09-02_senior_104_gives_her_nurse_millions.html
The fabulously wealthy heiress who lives in a Manhattan hospital room gave her longtime nurse cash to buy homes worth nearly $2 million, the woman’s lawyer said Wednesday.
Huguette Clark, 104, gave Filipino-born nurse Hadassah Peri money to buy four [...]

Regarding the legal industry and its “never waste a good crisis” mentality, James R. Copland from the Manhattan Institute has a good column out today entitled Litigating over the environment makes big bucks for trial lawyers.
The story of a California bank teller who stole money from two accounts poses a thought-provoking question for those in [...]

Ordinance would separate public administrator, guardian positions
Kurt Hildebrand
September 1, 2010
The Record-Courier (NV)
http://www.recordcourier.com/article/20100901/NEWS/100839952/1062&ParentProfile=1049
County attorneys are proposing unhitching the office of public guardian from that of public administrator.
Douglas County commissioners on Thursday will discuss the introduction of an ordinance revising Douglas County code that will separate the two offices.
The two offices were linked in 1997, when the [...]