In recent years, Warren Jeffs, incarcerated leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, has been charged with bigamy, sexual assault, and rape in multiple states. The $110 million trust for the polygamist sect owns more than 700 houses, farms, dairies, and other businesses on land in two communities along the Arizona-Utah [...]
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Tenth Circuit allows Utah continued control of trust property held by Warren Jeffs and polygamist sect.
Posted in Practice & Procedure, Property Law, Trusts & Estates, tagged trusts on April 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Arkansas Court of Appeals upholds requirement of two attesting witnesses to validate a will.
Posted in Trusts & Estates, tagged estate planning on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Norwood v. Sellers, No. CA08-952. In 2003, Jeannie Rodgers signed as one of the attesting witnesses on the last will and testament of Thomas Norwood. In 2006, Rodgers signed an affidavit stating that (1) she had been a subscribing witness to the will, (2) Norwood asked her to sign the will, and (3) she signed [...]
Arkansas Supreme Court refuses to allow intervention in probate estate case with felon as administrator.
Posted in Medical Malpractice, Practice & Procedure, Trusts & Estates on February 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Kelly v. Estate of Kenneth Edwards, Sr., Deceased, No. 08-1234. Under Arkansas law, a person cannot serve as administrator of an estate if he or she is a convicted felon. In August 1996, plaintiff pled guilty to two felonies (theft of property and forgery). After his father died, plaintiff was appointed administrator of his father’s [...]
Arkansas Court of Appeals holds that a will that has not been admitted to probate can be used as evidence of a devise of real property under Ark. Code Ann. 28-40-104.
Posted in Property Law, Trusts & Estates on January 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Osborn v. Bryant, No. CA 08-589 Lacy Bryant died in 1994, leaving a will that allowed a life estate for his wife in a twenty-acre tract of land, with an option to purchase to Brenda Bryant Osborn. Ms. Osborn filed an affidavit for collection of small estate and attached Mr. Bryant’s will. She later executed [...]
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