Estate Planning

Curious about how celebrity estate errors can help you protect yourself, your family, and your heirs? Watch this video: Posted by: Author and probate attorney Andrew W. Mayoras, co-author of Trial & Heirs: Famous Fortune Fights! and co-founder and shareholder of The Center for Probate Litigation and The Center for Elder Law in metro-Detroit, Michigan, which concentrate in probate litigation, estate planning, and elder law. You can email him at awmayoras @ brmmlaw.com. Read Full Story

Call AFG today (866) 530 5556 - www.earlycash4u.com The Multi-State Estate Plan - KCI Investing Readers with homes or other property in more than one state need to give special attention to their estate plans. Each state has different rules and requirements, and your estate might have to run P R O B A T E proceedings in each state. There is more work … Call AFG today (866) 530 5556 - earlycash4u - for lawsuit advances, sell structured Settlements and annuities. www.earlycash4u.com Tags: Sell Structured Settlements This entry was posted on Saturday, October 24th, 2009 at 12:00 am and is filed under Sell ... Read Full Story

An interesting article came out today by the Associated Press about how professionals who combat financial abuse against seniors can hold up the Brooke Astor verdict to raise awareness of the growing epidemic. You can read the article here . Jennifer Peltz, who wrote the article, discusses how advocates against financial exploitation of the elderly hailed the verdict and how it is far from alone. She points that there have been many other famous cases involving the rich, such as J. Steward Johnson (heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune) and Anna Nicole Smith versus the son of her late 90-year-old billionaire husband. The ... Read Full Story

The chief editor of www.Newsplink.com  and I collaborated on an article discussing some of the latest celebrity estate and probate-related feuds.  The article includes: The battles in the Britney Spears Conservatorship case, highlighted by the attorney who compared Britney's situation to a Soviet forced labor camp, before a restraining order was entered against him for three years. The Whitney Houston life insurance court case, through which Whitney lashed back at her step-mother (who sued Whitney) by detailing how the "custodial care services worker" met Whitney's father cleaning his house and then moved in with him despite their 40-year age difference and the fact Whitney's father was ... Read Full Story

In early March, I wrote this article about how one of the granddaughters of famed media mogul William Randolph Hearst  -- she of the 2.1 billion dollar net worth -- was fighting family members who felt she was no longer competent to manage her affairs.  They were worried she was being exploited and taken advantage of because she kept give people large checks (in the six-figure range). Phoebe Hearst Cooke went through multiple attorneys trying to prove she could manage her own affairs.  Meanwhile, a court-appointed guardian handled her finances, selling some of her prized horses and cattle, which upset Cooke.  A few days ago, ... Read Full Story