Lawrenceville, GA
Probate Lawyer at Lawrenceville, GA
Practice Areas: Probate, Litigation ... +3 more
OUTCOME: My client was appointed executor
Client was the named executor in Mr. Hess's will. Mr. Hess's family objected to my client being the executor. After a hearing that lasted almost 12 hours, my client was named the executor. She was ac ... cused by the family of being incompetent, an angry person looking to cause trouble within the Hess family, spiteful and generally being incapable of hanlding her own life let alone Mr. Hess's estate.
OUTCOME: We were able to generate significant evidence for our client that affirmed her father’s desires. On the eve of trial, we were able to reach a modest settlement with her brother.
Mr. Hendon prepared a will that left the bulk of his estate to his daughter. The named executor, his daughter, hired this firm to probate the will. Mr. Hendon's son challenged the will on the grounds ... that the will was created while Mr. Hendon was mentally impaired and that Mr. Hendon was under the influence of his daughter when he executed the will. Mr. Hendon's son dismissed the caveat to the will thus allowing Mr. Hendon's daughter to probate the will and follow her father's final instructions.
OUTCOME: My client, the defendant, won when the Plaintiffs dismissed the lawsuit and had the court awared her all of her attorney's fees.
My client , the Defendant, was sued by her siblings, the Plaintiffs, for allegedly taking property that belonged to their late Mother's estate, for damaging the family home that they purchased and for ... inflicting emotional distress on them. My client filed a Motion for Summary Judgment and asked the court to rule against her siblings on all claims. Before the court could rule on the claims, the Plaintiff siblings dismissed their lawsuit. Because our firm believed that the Plaintiffs had no basis for the lawsuit, we asked the court to award our client all of her attorney's fees for having to defend a baseless lawsuit. The court agreed and awarded our client, the defendant, all of her attorney's fees.
OUTCOME: Fister won the case
My client was sued by a debt assignment company alleging that she owed a credit card account. My client filed an answer denying that she owed the money and filed a counterclaim for violation of the Fa ... ir Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). My client won by having the lawsuit against her dismissed and by succeeding on her FDCPA claim and was awarded the maximum statutory damages and all of her attorney's fees.
OUTCOME: My client, the claimaint, won.
My client is the only child of the late Billy McBee. As part of ongoing estate litigation, we were able to prove that a woman alleging to be the wife of Mr. McBee was in fact perpetrating a fraud on t ... he Gwinnett County Probate Court. After a trial, the Court determined that Ms. McBee was not the wife of the deceased and was not entitled to a share of the intestate estate.
OUTCOME: My clients succeeeded
My clients were suing to have an amendment to a trust declared invalid due to the improper execution of the trust. The trial court agreed with my clients and declared the amendment to the trust to be ... invalid. The Georgia Court of Appeals recently upheld the trial court. The result is that my clients remain as beneficiaries of the trust rather than being excluded completely.
OUTCOME: Judgment for Plaintiff
This case involved the flow of water from the property of Annistown Road Baptist Church and Gwinnett County onto the property of Lelia Bailey. The water severely damaged Ms. Bailey's home. The case w ... as appealed to the Georgia Court of Appeals which partially reversed the trial court and increased the damages that Ms. Bailey was awarded. The Supreme Court of Georgia denied certiorari and would not hear the appeal of Annistown Road Baptist Church. We have collected $143,209.21 for Ms. Bailey.
OUTCOME: NCI prevailed on its motion
Omni Hotels sued my client, NCI, for breach of a contract concerning NCI holding a convention at an Omni Hotel and asked the Court to award it more than $250,000. The contract contained a liquidation ... clause that specified a certain penalty if NCI cancelled the convention. NCI cancelled the convention and Omni sued seeking its liquidated damages. On a motion by NCI, the trial court struck the liquidated damges clause from the contract. This resulted in Omni having to prove its damges if it wanted to recover. The matter settled for a nominal sum.
OUTCOME: Verdict on counterclaim
This case was about a business dispute between the parties to a sales agreement. Crookston bought the stock in Vortex from Miller and Gabree. Each party had obligations that were to be performed. Cr ... ookston performed his obligations until it became apparent that Miller and Gabree were not going to perform their obligations. Miller and Gabree owned another company, Affeldt Packaging Machinery, LLC that had certian obligations that arose from the conduct of the parties. Judgment for Miller and Gabree for $55,000. Judgment for Crookston and Vortex for about $142,000.
OUTCOME: Verdict for Family of Harold Kennedy
The family of Harold Kennedy claimed that he was coerced into executing a new will that was favorable to a caregiver. I represented the Kenneey family and was able to convince the jury that the will w ... as improperly obtained and was the result of undue influence and that Mr. Kennedy did not have the mental capacity to exeute the Will.
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