A Minnesota probate judge overseeing the estate of Prince has refused to appoint either of two probate lawyers seeking to represent the late music star’s likely heirs in managing his legacy, citing disagreement among the siblings over whom they prefer. Prince left behind a fortune believed to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars when…
Mrs Tini Owens has taken her husband to the Court of Appeal to ask three judges for a divorce because he makes her feel ‘unloved, isolated and alone’. In 2016 Mrs Owens failed to persuade a family court judge to allow her to divorce her husband but Mr Hugh Owens is opposed to the divorce…
Beyoncé is being sued for $20 million by the estate of a late internet star who is sampled in her song and video Formation. The estate of Anthony Barré, also known as Messy Mya, alleges in a filed federal lawsuit that Beyoncé used a sample of Mya in the single and its video without permission.…
Maria Mills received a £230,000 lump sum along with £1,100 monthly maintenance payments when she split from her husband Graham after 13 years of marriage. But since the divorce in 2002 Mrs Mills invested the money ‘unwisely’ in London properties, landing herself in debt because of her ‘poor’ decisions. Mr Mills argued he ‘should not…
Chinese conservationist Li Quan and estranged husband Stuart Bray, a banker from America, who founded a charity called Save Chinese Tigers before their marriage broke down have returned to court for another round of litigation in their multi-million-pound legal fight. For three years, they have been embroiled in a legal battle. Ms Li claims that…
A pensioner is to face a criminal trial for ‘illegally digging up some soil’ as part of a bitter neighbour dispute that has lasted nearly 20 years. Valerie Vivian was allegedly spotted digging up soil laid by her neighbours in a jointly-owned communal garden in Somerset. Her neighbours had laid the soil over a gravel…
Two rogue traders in charge of building firms which carried out tens of thousands of pounds of shoddy work face prison after they admitted a catalogue of reckless trading offences. Jonathan Jones and Rebecca Dack pleaded guilty to crimes against customers who were charged more than £50,000 for building work. It was said they “failed…
Glen Briers built a £30million sports and street-wear business incorporating brands Lambretta and Vision Streetwear. When he split from Nicola Briers, his wife of 18 years in 2002, the business was turning over £1million a year. When they divorced Mr Briers gave his wife £150,000 to pay off the mortgage and she kept the £700,000…
The recent case of ‘right to die’ policeman Paul Briggs, highlights the need for people of all ages to have in place a Health and Welfare Lasting Power of Attorney. PC Briggs, 43, was involved in a head-on collision on his motorcycle on his way to work for Merseyside Police in July 2015. He suffered several…
A former judge and her husband who forged a dead man’s will in order to obtain two country cottages which they then converted into a £325,000 home were jailed for six months each earlier today. Margaret and Alan Hampshire made it appear as though Martin Blanche had left his house to an elderly cousin of…