A recent case in Queens, New York, has raised questions about compensation for trustees of a public library. On July 23, the borough president used her authority to dismiss six of the 19 trustees tasked with the stewardship of the Queens Library board. The borough...
Leona Helmsley was once called, "the Queen of Mean" before she died in August 2007. The hotel magnate was well known for her outspoken opinions and she once even spent a year and a half in prison for tax evasion. Nevertheless, when Helmsley died she left behind a...
Earlier this month, the children of the late actor Mickey Rooney filed suit in a Los Angeles Superior Court seeking to have their father's will invalidated because of undue influence he might have encountered during the last weeks of his life when he supposedly signed...
A fight is brewing in the Manhattan Surrogate's Court between the widow of a deceased multi-million dollar sporting goods chain founder, and the deceased man's brother. The founder of the sporting goods empire died of cancer in 2001, but gave $70 million to his wife...
Jerry Orbach, star of the popular legal drama "Law & Order," passed away a decade ago, but his estate is still part of an ongoing battle. According to papers filed in New York, Orbach's former accountant is allegedly refusing to hand over control over a bank...
