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• Malpractice Actions Against Estate Planning Attorneys

  David Coffey | July 27, 2006 8:53 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  It has long been the law in Texas that attorneys could not be sued for negligently advising and preparing wills. That may no longer be the case. The Texas Supreme Court in Belt v. Oppenheimer, Blend, Harrison & Tate, Inc. held that "there is no legal bar preventing an estate's personal representative from maintaining a legal malpractice claim on behalf of the estate against the decedent's...

• Anna Nicole Smith - Inheritance or Not?

  Robert Soliz | July 13, 2006 6:20 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  In this strange case, former Playboy Playmate, Anna Nicole Smith, alleged that her stepson, E. Pierce Marshall, Jr. ("Pierce") had interfered with her inheritance rights. Having already lost her claim that her dead husband, J. Howard Marshall, II had promised to leave her half of his estimated $1.2 Billion estate, in probate court, Ms. Smith then pursued this claim against Pierce in U.S....