When Rosamund Pike accepted her Golden Globe for her performance in I Care a Lot, she quipped in her speech, “Maybe I just have to thank America’s broken legal system for making it possible to make stories like this.” And by “stories like this” she means the new Netflix thriller directed by J Blakeson, which follows Marla …
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What do a megastar singer, Britney Spears, and an elderly Alabama philanthropist, Joann Bashinsky, have in common? A whole lot more than you think. As we learned from the recent hit documentary about Britney Spears’ ongoing conservatorship battle to regain control of her life, abuse of this legal mechanism is a national epidemic in need of drastic reform. …
One of the most common questions about serving as the executor of a will is whether an executor gets paid for administering a decedent’s estate—and the logical follow-up to that question is, “If so, how much?” The simple answer is that, either through specific will provisions or applicable state law, an executor is usually entitled …
They say one can judge a society by how it treats its most vulnerable. That’s bad news for America. It has become increasingly and disconcertingly clear lately that American society as a whole treats its elderly as disposable objects, that is if it notices them at all. On Monday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo gave …
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