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A judge has ordered the exhumation of the body of a Chicago business owner and $1 million lottery winner who medical examiners say was killed by cyanide poisoning. As investigators work to find out how 46-year-old Urooj Khan was poisoned, a family drama is unfolding over Khan’s estate and the custody of his 17-year-old daughter. Khan won the $1 million prize last summer and claimed his winnings during a press conference on July 19. The next night, after enjoying a …

Five of Michael Jackson’s siblings who were left out of his will are calling the document a fake and claim his lawyers forged the King of Pop’s signature. Janet, Jermaine, Rebbie, Randy, and Tito Jackson have questioned the date the document was signed, claiming that their brother was in New York on the date the will was signed in California. The will, probated in Los Angeles, put his assets in a trust for his three children and his mother Katherine, 82, …

This is the third in a series of estate planning articles from EZLaw™.  EZLaw™ makes it easy to create a Last Will & Testament, Power of Attorney, or Living Will document, with the guidance of an attorney at a very affordable cost. After the wedding is over and the honeymoon is just a memory, many newlyweds find that it takes six or nine months to settle into their new lives. But there’s still a lot of work to be done after the …

This is the second in a series of estate planning articles from EZLaw™.  EZLaw™ makes it easy to create a Last Will & Testament, Power of Attorney, or Living Will document, with the guidance of an attorney at a very affordable cost. As we grow older, our estate-planning needs change. Many seniors may mistakenly think a last will and testament is all they need to satisfy their estate plans. But that’s often not the case. Today, let’s look at the five most …

A Massachusetts daughter was found guilty of stealing money from her deceased mother’s estate and sentenced to jail last week. After her mother, Shirley Leathers, died of cancer in 2006, Dell Leathers-Buford was named executor of her estate. Two years later, the estate received a $553,579.84 settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit filed on behalf of her mother. Rather than splitting the money evenly with her siblings, Leathers-Buford kept more than half the money for herself. In an effort to …