The former chair of Sullivan & Cromwell’s trusts and estates practice rejected suggestions by a prosecutor yesterday that he had divided loyalties when he represented both Brooke Astor and her…
A beloved actor perhaps best known for hiding his keen detective skills under a bumbling police persona in the Columbo television series is now reportedly more than absent-minded in real…
Multimillionaire Brooke Astor confessed to worries about needing the money when she told her lawyer she wanted to sell a painting by Childe Hassam, but she had joked in the…
Adult adoptions are sometimes used by trust fund beneficiaries who want to transfer the trust money to a same-sex partner after death, but in some cases the device is leading…
A polygamist sect in Texas won the return of most of the 400 children removed from its ranch last year. But the group’s legal troubles are far from over.
A 200-attorney Boston-based law firm has further expanded its growing New York office by adding a six-lawyer trusts and estates group from Dewey & LeBoeuf.
Nikolas Colton Evans always wanted three sons. So, when he died after being punched and falling in a March 27 street assault in Austin, Texas, his mother, Marissa Evans, decided…
The brother of Bernard Madoff still can’t sell anything. But a judge in Long Island, N.Y., has amended an earlier asset freeze won by a 22-year-old Brooklyn law student so…
Often, the living have no obligation to pay the debts of dead relatives. But a growing legion of sympathetic debt collectors is seeking to persuade them to do so.
A New York judge has ruled that trustees of a fund established under the will of hotel heiress Leona Helmsley have sole discretion to determine how much of her multibillion-dollar…
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