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Colorado’s probate courts have been mired in controversy for years. Two state audits in the last eleven years have found screening and monitoring of guardians and conservators as lacking. There have also been instances of neglect, theft, fraud and a general lack of accountability. Attempts to reform, the system has been moving at a glacial…

A crypt beneath New York’s Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral is available for $7 million. This isn’t just any crypt, It’s one of the last full-body burial spots in Manhattan and can hold nine caskets and 10 cremated remains. And at least three prominent NYC families have already inquired about it. Today, funerals are…

An attorney running for probate judge in Lawrnce County, Alabama had one of her campaign signs defaced with a mustache. She responded with a humorous Facebook video with her wearing a fake mustache “Hello Lawrence County, Laura Terry Powell here and I mustache you a question…,” she said, then urged people to register to vote…

A woman is suing herself for negligence after a car crash that killed her husband. The Utah Court of Appeals has ruled that a woman, Barbara Bagley can sue herself in the wrongful death suit. Her insurance company will represent her interests as a defendant in the case. The lawsuit, called Bagley vs. Bagley derives…

Connecticut police arrested the husband in his wife’s murder when wife’s Fit bit data contradicted the husband story. According to CNN, in an apparent attempt to establish an alibi, the husband claimed his wife was shot by an intruder at 9:05 am. Police became suspicious when they retrieved the wife’s Fit bit from her wrist.…

A Long Beach, California couple is suing Long Beach Memorial Medical Center for wrongful life and wrongful birth claiming their negligence denied them the option of having an abortion. Javier Sanchez and Samantha Hernandez told her OB/GYN that they wanted tests for genetic disorders because they said she and Sanchez could not afford to raise…

A would-be client has been charged with petit larceny after stealing a Long Island lawyer’s beloved pet office frog. Fernado Castro admitted to snatching the frog and a secretary for another law firm has lawyered up for her role in the theft. The Daily News quotes Garden City attorney, Thomas Liotti as saying, “Our entire…

In her will, Bronx widow Ellen Frey-Wouters left $300,000 to Troy and Tiger, her two cats. Her will instructed the money be used to make sure they would “never be caged” and always be lovingly cared for. The New York Post quotes Dahlia Grizzleto, a former health aide Frey-Wouters and now caretaker of the cats…

Sometimes you just don’t know who a person really is until after the die. Here are some odd codicils to wills. Attorney T.M. Zink ,an Iowa lawyer who died in 1930, left his daughter only five dollars and his wife got zilch. He stipulated that the rest of his $100,000 estate be put in a…

On October 10th, 2012, 32-year old Gary Walls went to the Delaware Surgical Center to get a colonoscopy. He claims in a lawsuit that after he woke up from anesthesia, he found he was wearing pink woman’s underwear. “When the plaintiff recovered from the effects of the anesthesia administered by defendants, he awoke to realize…