Posts Tagged ‘reform’

Prosecutions of elder abuse cases decline under Jerry Brown
Christina Jewett
August 21, 2010
CaliforniaWatch.org
http://californiawatch.org/prosecutions-elder-abuse-cases-decline-under-jerry-brown-013
The office of Attorney General Jerry Brown has dismissed an increasing number of criminal cases against defendants suspected of elder abuse, while cutting back on surprise inspections to investigate violence and neglect in nursing homes.
A California Watch review of elder abuse prosecutions found Brown’s [...]

My mother is a victim of hostile predatory guardianship, having had her estate documents canceled unlawfully, which has damaged her and family members and others.  She adopted 8 children after I was born, and 4 of them have now banded together, with the guidance of a “quasi-legal” cousin from out of state, to use the [...]

Senate Rejects Creating Jobs with Death Tax Repeal 59 - 39
Sen. DeMint forces Senate to go on record
Palmer Schoening
July 23, 2010
www.NoDeathTax.org
http://www.nodeathtax.org/repealvote
On Wednesday, July 22, 2010, the Senate voted not to create 1.5 million jobs when it defeated Senator Jim DeMint’s (S-SC) death tax repeal measure by a vote of 39 – 59.
Here is how the [...]

Tax ripoff gets thumbs down
Editorial
July 20, 2010
The Japan Times
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ed20100720a1.html
The Supreme Court has decided that a 1968 tax notice imposing inheritance as well as income taxes on the beneficiaries of life-insurance money paid in the form of a pension is illegal. The ruling was the culmination of a lawsuit filed against tax authorities in 2005 by [...]

Lawyers Call for Reform of Barratry Laws
Morgan Smith
July 14, 2010
The Texas Tribune
http://www.texastribune.org/texas-special-interest-groups/interest-groups/lawyers-call-for-reform-of-barratry-laws/
On the night of May 31, 2007, Samuel and Delicia Cantu are at the home of their son in Premont, Texas. They’ve just learned he was killed instantly in a car wreck on Highway 77. Around 1 a.m., two men knock on the door. [...]