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  • Musician Lou Reed Leaves Estate to Wife and Sister
    Musician Lou Reed Leaves Estate to Wife and Sister

    American musician Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed, the front man for the 1960s band The Velvet Underground, left majority of his $15 million estate to his wife, Laurie Anderson. Reed, who underwent a liver ...

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  • Part II - Estate Planning Attorney Disqualified from Representing A Client with Adverse Interests To Former Client
    Part II - Estate Planning Attorney Disqualified from Representing A Client with Adverse Interests To Former Client

    To continue our blog on Fiduciary Trust International of California v. Superior Court, Betty Brown (decedent), changed her will after Willet's death. Instead of leaving the majority of Betty's assets ...

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  • James Gandolfini in Death and Taxes
    James Gandolfini in Death and Taxes

    As we mourn the loss of a great actor who moved us with his performance as Mafia boss Tony Soprano in "The Sopranos", we also take this opportunity to look at the tax ramifications of his estate ...

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  • Part II: The Marvin Claim
    Part II: The Marvin Claim

    To continue our discussion on the Marvin claim from a previous blog, Michelle appealed the trial court's decision favoring the defendant, Lee Marvin, wherein the court cited that Michelle's ...

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  • The Marvin Claim
    The Marvin Claim

    Marvin v. Marvin (18 Cal. 3d 660 (1976)) is a landmark "palimony" case which held that a contract between unmarried partners was enforceable unless it was based on an illicit or unlawful ...

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  • Man Leaves Estate to Two Favorite Actors
    Man Leaves Estate to Two Favorite Actors

    Just like winning a lottery, two actors got lucky when a fan left them his estate worth over a million dollars when he died in July of last year. The fan was Ray Fulk, a 71 year old hermit who lived ...

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