| Genealogy group meets Sunday | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 10:46:09 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Sandusky County Kin Hunters Genealogy Group will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 12, at the Sandusky Township hall in Fremont. Speaker will be Sandusky County Probate Judge Culbert whose responsibilities include overseeing the operation of the Sandusky County Probate Court and its staff. As a judge he oversees the administration of estates, guardianships and trusts. He makes findings of facts and issues orders in cases involving the involuntary hospitalization of the mentally ill, applications for name changes, will contests, wrongful death settlements, settlements involving injuries to minors, adoptions and other civil suits. The Probate Court also issues marriage licenses. .... | |
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| | | Two vie for top job in Polk court system | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 12:45:32 PM by Blog57 Team | | Polk County voters will decide next Tuesday who should hold the top position in the Polk County court system. Democratic incumbent Charlene Owens is facing a challenge from Republican candidate John Johnson for Polk County Clerk of Court. Owens has held the position since 1988, when she took over for retired clerk Judy Arledge. Owens has worked in the clerk of court’s office since 1977. Johnson served as a former probate judge in South Carolina for 16 years before retiring in 1995 and moving here in 1996. He also is a former state police officer and county small claims court judge. The race between Owens and Johnson has stirred some controversy. Johnson has defended his record, which includes a reprimand from the S.C. Supreme Court in 1990 for misappropriating fees he received while conducting Department of Mental Health hearings.... | |
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| | | Probate court race foes call each other unfit | | Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 10:45:53 AM by Blog57 Team | | Probate court judges preside over cases involving assets and estates, as well as guardianships of children and adults not fit to take care of themselves and mental-health commitments.The candidates in the race for the countys probate court term each other unfit for the bench. Judge Gladys Burwell, seeking a third term, says Republican challenger Charles Kaufmann might not be able to act as probate judge, even if elected.In March 2001, Kaufmann declared bankruptcy. Section 36 of the State of Texas Probate Code holds probate judges liable for being bonded. Section 25 of the states government code exempts only Galveston county-court judges from posting a bond.Kaufmann said that because his bankruptcy happened more than five years, ago, it would not be an impediment to my being bonded.Kaufmann said he would restore proper judicial temperament to the bench.My opponent can be very rude to the people who come before her, creating obstacles when she should be trying to make the process simpler or easier, he said.Burwell said that she demanded correct documents and filings from lawyers, including Kaufmann when he brought an estate issue before her, but denied treating anyone badly.I have never had a complaint about being rude, she said.... | |
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| | | Probate judge treated for leukemia | | Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 10:45:58 PM by Blog57 Team | | The husband of Shelby County Probate Judge Patricia Yeager Fuhrmeister says his wife is responding well to cancer treatments.Jim Fuhrmeister relayed the message by e-mail last week from Houston, where Patricia has been undergoing treatment for a form of acute adult leukemia at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center."The tremendous outpouring of prayers and love from our family, friends in Shelby County and all over the state as well as our deep faith in the healing power of God are sustaining us," Fuhrmeister wrote. "We look forward to returning home and seeing our friends and family." .... | |
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| | | Livingston Briefs | | Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 10:45:39 AM by Blog57 Team | | Livingston County 10 inmates freed early due to overcrowding Livingston County Jail officials released 10 inmates early Friday, prompting jail officials to lift an overcrowding emergency order that was declared earlier in the week, said sheriff's Lt. Tom Cremonte, a supervisor at the jail. There were 235 inmates as of Friday morning, under the capacity of the 254-bed facility. The jail population hit a high of 295 the previous weekend. Howell Health dept. offering flu clinics for adults The Livingston County Department of Public Health will hold walk-in flu clinics for adults only from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursdays through Nov. 30, except Nov. 23, as long as vaccine is available. The office is at 2300 E. Grand River Ave., Suite 102, in Howell.... | |
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| | | Probate Court due to move Terms of the lease still have to be worked out | | Posted Sunday, October 08, 2006 2:45:36 AM by Blog57 Team | | WATERBURY -- Probate Court will be moving from the Chase Municipal Building to the former SNET billing and sales center on Leavenworth Street. The Board of Aldermen will receive the request Tuesday, but action likely will be held off for at least two weeks while city lawyers and the court work out details, according to Corporation Counsel Craig Sullivan. The delay will give officials time to determine how much of the 8,006 square feet the city will pay for and how much will be the responsibility of a new agency known as a Regional Children's Probate Court. The cost is $14 per square foot the first two years, increasing to $16 in the third year. "We're going to have the probate function, but we're also going to have a regional children's court that will serve the towns immediately surrounding us," said Waterbury Probate Judge Thomas Brunnock.... | |
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| | | Report critical of court guardian oversight | | Posted Friday, September 29, 2006 6:45:54 PM by Blog57 Team | | Colorado's probate courts have few standards for guardians and conservators, including how much they can charge and what their qualifications must be, a state audit found. Those who manage the estates of very young, elderly or disabled people have charged the same fees for mowing the lawn as they do for legal services, said Art Bridges, senior manager of Clifton Gunderson, the private firm commissioned by the auditor's office for the report. Clifton Gunderson officials on Tuesday reported their review of 114 probate cases from 2003 to the Legislative Audit Committee. The audit found that guardians and conservators of at-risk clients often did not file required reports, but there were no consequences to them. "Some of the courts' current practices for reviewing reports were insufficient to identify errors and inappropriate expenses or to evaluate the appropriateness of care," the report said.... | |
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| | | Denton County judge reprimanded by conduct commission | | Posted Thursday, September 21, 2006 2:45:42 AM by Blog57 Team | | DENTON, Texas State judicial conduct officials reprimanded a Denton County probate judge. The State Commission on Judicial Conduct says Judge Don Windle compromised his impartiality by using his office to advance the interests of his business partner and wife. The 58-year-old judge got a public reprimand -- which is the highest sanction the pan can issue. It cites Windle's relationship with Beverly McClure, who worked as a probate investigator in his court and later married him. Also questioned was his ties with Rick Woolfolk, a pilot who owns a plane with the judge. Windle lobbied Denton County commissioners to fund a guardianship program while McClure was trying to start her guardianship company. Windle incorrectly told the panel McClure didn't form her company until after they divorced.... | |
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| | | Parks Institute leaves legacy of debt | | Posted Monday, September 18, 2006 12:45:56 PM by Blog57 Team | | DETROIT -- Rosa Parks' signature nonprofit foundation finished last year with its worst deficit of the decade, while another nonprofit created last year to promote her civil rights legacy remains dormant, in part because of an ongoing legal battle over her estate. The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development finished 2005 with a $437,000 accumulated deficit, its fourth in the past five years, according to federal tax records belatedly filed this summer. The records suggest that national attention focused on Parks after her death in October did little to change the financial fortunes of the institute she formed in 1987. The organization, dedicated to helping children and teaching civil rights, has struggled over the years to pay its bills and its program offerings have withered in recent years, court and federal tax records show.... | |
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| | | Court's Bottlenecks Becoming Tighter | | Posted Sunday, September 03, 2006 6:45:41 PM by Blog57 Team | | Getting into D.C. Superior Court in the morning is going to be more of a hassle than usual for about three months. The building's east entrance, which leads into the Family Court, or John Marshall level, was closed this week for renovations, the second time in three years it has been taken out of service. .... | |
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