Former Ellis County Observer website publisher Joseph G. “Joey” Dauben is free on $50,000 bond pending trial on sexual abuse of a child charges in Navarro County and unauthorized use of identifying information on his former website in Ellis County. The Ellis County Observer website, which he published from a home office on Cedar Creek Keep Reading…
This is a great Houston Chronicle op-ed on a situation we’ve found most interesting here in our home state of Texas: In politics, candidate residency disputes are generally the stuff of tedious civil court filings and trite campaign attack mailers. Questioning whether a person actually lives in the district in which he or she is running Keep Reading…
Personal injury lawsuits and other tort claims represent a $40 billion per year industry built upon the abuse and misuse of America’s legal system by contingency-fee lawyers. While these trial lawyers (or plaintiffs’ lawyers or personal injury lawyers) have long claimed to champion “the little guy,” their injured and uninjured plaintiffs are often drawn into Keep Reading…
Barbara Burton Morriss is suing Wells Fargo Bank over the handling of two family trusts that suffered millions of dollars in losses. Barbara Burton Morriss is the mother of B. Douglas Morriss, the financier and former CEO of the Acartha Group in Clayton. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accused B. Douglas Morriss of defrauding Keep Reading…
Allegations prominent Payson attorney Harlan Green took financial advantage of a mentally disabled woman, mishandled a trust account and neglected his duties prompted the Arizona Supreme Court to suspend his practice of law for six months. The court also ordered the former Payson town attorney and leading Rim Country criminal lawyer to pay the $4,532 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…
