An Aiken hearing related to the estate of music icon James Brown, scheduled for Feb. 29, is being rescheduled at the request of those who are not parties in the case. Attorneys for some of the Brown children and companion Tomi Rae Hynie asked Judge Doyet Early III to reschedule because they had conflicts. Earlier, Keep Reading…
A Victorian Supreme Court judge has sent a clear signal that the credibility of retailing tycoon Solomon Lew will be a crucial issue in a case where the businessman is seeking court orders about the beneficiaries of a Lew family trust. Justice Tony Pagone has warned that he will expect to hear evidence about Mr Keep Reading…
BOSTON — With only eight days to live, a wealthy, ailing Massachusetts merchant wrote in his will 351 years ago that he was leaving a spectacular 35-acre seafront property for the benefit of public schoolchildren, decreeing the land should never be sold or wasted. The dying wish of William Payne, one of the state’s earliest Keep Reading…
BRIDGEPORT – Mary Kantorowski is free to live in her Fairfield home. Late Thursday afternoon her son withdrew the eviction action against his 98-year-old mother in state Superior Court. “Mary just couldn’t be happier,” her court-appointed lawyer, Richard Bortolot Jr., said. “She can now spend the rest of her life in her home, the place she is happiest.” The withdrawal Keep Reading…
President Kevin Adell of Clinton Township-based Adell Broadcasting Corp. will pay $3.25 million to resolve a legal dispute with his sisters and dissolve a family trust, making him majority shareholder of the media company. Attorneys last week reached a resolution to dismiss an Oakland County Probate Court, where Adell was suspended in 2008 as trustee of 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…
