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Be Wary of Living Trust Scams
March 15th, 2016
Many seniors in the U.S. fall victim to living trust scammers who scare and intimidate their victims into purchasing worthless, unnecessary trusts. Seniors need to know what to look out for to avoid being victims. Going through probate can be burdens…
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Categories: Aging Issues, Current Affairs, Elder Abuse, Estate Planning, Probate, Succession, Trust Funding, Weblogs, Will
Tags: Elder Abuse, Elder Law, Estate Tax, Living Trusts, probate, scams, taxes, trust, trust funding
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Former Prosecutor Guilty of Stealing From an Estate
February 24th, 2016
It is always disturbing when an estate administrator steals from the estate. That goes double when the administrator is a former district attorney. John Paschall served as the District Attorney for Robertson County, Texas for 20 years. He should have…
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Categories: Aging Issues, Current Affairs, Elder Abuse, Elder Law, Estate Planning, Power of Attorney, Succession, Trust Funding, Weblogs, Will
Court Declines to Enforce Nursing Home's Arbitration Clause
February 19th, 2016
Many nursing homes insert mandatory arbitration clauses in their contracts with elderly patients. They do not do so for the benefit of the elderly. If you read the fine print on almost any standard contract a large company makes a consumer sign, you…
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Categories: Aging Issues, Current Affairs, Elder Abuse, Elder Law, Estate Planning, Power of Attorney, Probate, Succession, Trust Funding, Weblogs, Will
The Fight Over a Mathematician's Notes
February 5th, 2016
Over a year after one of the most celebrated mathematicians of the 21st Century passed away a legal battle rages in France over the thousands of pages of notes he left behind. Alexander Grothendieck is neither a name most people will recognize nor is…
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Categories: Aging Issues, Books, Elder Abuse, Estate Planning, Succession, Trust Funding, Weblogs, Will
Tags: Estate Administration
Trump Under Fire Over Actions Surrounding Father's Estate
January 20th, 2016
It is impossible to read a newspaper or watch the news on TV without hearing some mention of Donald Trump's campaign for president. The latest headlines illustrate how family feuds over estates can have unintended consequences. Donald Trump is w…
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Elderly Poverty Could Rise
January 18th, 2016
A steep decline in the number of elderly people living in poverty is one of the greatest social policy success stories of the 20th Century. If current trends do not change, the success might be fleeting. The early decades of the 20th Century saw grea…
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Categories: Aging Issues, Current Affairs, Elder Abuse, Elder Law, Estate Planning, Long Term Care, Medicaid, Power of Attorney, Succession, Trust Funding, Weblogs, Will
Guardianship Laws and Elder Abuse
January 15th, 2016
Guardianship laws are meant to protect people who cannot take care of themselves. However, many people think that the laws do not do enough to protect elderly people from abuse. The process for what happens when an elderly person can no longer handle…
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Categories: Aging Issues, Current Affairs, Elder Abuse, Elder Law, Estate Planning, Long Term Care, Power of Attorney, Succession, Trust Funding, Weblogs, Will
Choose an Estate Planning Attorney Carefully
January 5th, 2016
Financial abuse of the elderly is a serious problem. While most estate planning and elder law attorneys can be trusted not to abuse clients unfortunately not all can be trusted. William Edy was a respected elder law attorney in Florida. He was known…
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Categories: Aging Issues, Current Affairs, Elder Abuse, Elder Law, Estate Planning, Long Term Care, Power of Attorney, Trust Funding, Weblogs, Will
Attorney Charged With Theft in Louisiana Estate Case
December 10th, 2015
A feud that began with a bitter child custody battle might have led to one of the attorneys in the case being charged with falsifying a will and theft. Louisiana attorney Michael Cox represented Michael Davisson in a custody battle against Davisson&#…
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An Odd and Bitter UK Estate Battle
November 27th, 2015
An estate battle in the United Kingdom pits four large charities against the son of a 95-year-old Alzheimer’s patient whom the charities accuse of fraudulently creating a new will for another woman. In an interesting estate battle in the United Kin…
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