What better way to see the gamut of domestic despair, distrust, estrangement, recrimination, spite, and the bounty of the lawyer honey pot, than through families tearing at each other in courtrooms. Wills, succession and family provisions provide the landscape for some of the spellbinding human dramas that unfold in the equity courts. There’s nothing quite 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…
What a wonderful end to a terrible story. The five-year court battle over the estate of socialite/philanthropist Brooke Astor has been settled. It appears the good guys won – Astor’s grandson, children and friends got the justice they sought and the accused “bad guys” – Astor’s son and daughter-in-law – had their inheritance cut by Keep Reading…
Susan Strong Davis, an 87-year-old widow, spends the day inside her Palos Verdes Estates home, tended round-the-clock by nurse’s aides. For company, relatives say, she has her dog, the television and, on increasingly rare occasions, memories of the glamorous socialite’s life she once lived. “She definitely has some sort of dementia,” said Viki Brushwood, a niece Keep Reading…
PACIFICA, Calif. — A Pacifica attorney could lose her license to practice law after she secretly married an elderly, terminally ill client and misappropriated his savings after his death, according to the State Bar of California. Attorney Linda Lowney obtained a confidential marriage license to marry her client, Thor Tollefsen, who was suffering from emphysema 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…
