The estate of deceased multimillionaire Frank Blumeyer of Naples, Florida, is embroiled in controversy.
The 92-year old Blumeyer’s $10 million estate is being fought over by his children and, his neighbor, a disbarred lawyer. Aisling Swift, writing for Naplesnew.com says: "The tangled web of litigation and love is like a made-for-TV movie. There’s a suspended
Gene Upshaw, one-time Oakland Raiders Hall of Fame lineman and head of the NFL Players Association for 25 years, died in August 2008. He led the union through a strike, decertification, the victory of free agency, soaring player salaries and disputes with retired players.
Upshaw was married for the second time and had three sons
Interesting reading from Estate of Denial: The long goodbye.
"Extreme wealth is a menace to happiness."
– Huguette Clark
Reclusive heiress Huguette Clark died May 24, 2011 at the age of 104. Her estate is estimated at $500 million. She has lived in a New York hospital for the last 22 years. No visitors or family have seen her. Her affairs are controlled
Andrew Wolfe writing for the Nashua Telegraph:
NASHUA – A daughter of the late developer Samuel Tamposi will appeal a judge’s decision that cut her out of the family fortune and left her with millions of dollars in debt to the family trust, probate court records show.
Last month, Elizabeth “Betty” Tamposi, 55, of
Death of Female Partner Puts Cozen Firm in Center of Same-Sex Marriage Comity Case
Law partner in Philadelphia firm dies and her parents and wife to whom she was legally married in Toronto in 2006 fight over her profit-sharing account.
See Martha Neil’s article in the ABA Journal online: Death of Female Partner Puts Cozen
Click here to read about the litigation over trusts in Walt Disney’s family. Hat Tip to Gary Beyer at Wills Trusts and Estates Prof Blog.
Robert Anglen, writing for the Arizona Republic: "The court battles revolve around the fortune of one of the legends of American entertainment, Walt Disney. They trace back to secret
Huguette CLark, a 104-year-old heiress, has been in a hospital for the last 20 years?
Read Verena Dobnik’s article for the New York Post: click here
Aron Heller writes for the AP:
"JERUSALEM – It seems almost Kafkaesque: Ten safety deposit boxes of never-published writings by Franz Kafka, their exact contents unknown, are trapped in courts and bureaucracy, much like one of the nightmarish visions created by the author himself.
The papers, retrieved from bank vaults where they have
Juan Altunez writes in his Florida Probate and Trust Litigation Blog about this recient Florida Supreme Court case: Olmstead v. F.T.C., — So.3d —-, 2010 WL 2518106 (Fla. Jun 24, 2010). Read his execllent summary and anlaysis of the case here.
An excerpt from the post:
"For those of you interested in understanding the charging-order