NH Trust Docket Declines To Recognize Inheritance Interference Claim (Link to Order)

In Swenson v. Silk et al. in a thoughtful, scholarly order, Judge David King declined to recognize intentional interference with inheritance as a claim in New Hampshire.  The Swenson petitioners as trustees and beneficiaries of a trust claim that a deceased predecessor trustee breached his fiduciary duties by making impermissible trust distributions to himself and that these distributions were […]

A Suspected “Sweetheart Swindle”

Many of our cases involve actual or suspected financial exploitation of the elderly in which a claim is made that someone took advantage of the cognitive and/or emotional vulnerability of an older person to gain financial enrichment from “gifting” of assets, changes in financial accounts, and/or rewriting of estate plans.  While the typical case involves […]

Elder Exploitation Reporting Resource

There is an epidemic of sophisticated exploitation of our elderly.  According to the National Adult Protective Services Association (NAPSA): One in nine seniors reported being abused, neglected or exploited in the past twelve months; the rate of financial exploitation is extremely high, with 1 in 20 older adults indicating some form of perceived financial mistreatment occurring […]