Monday, September 27, 2010

Probate Court Exploitation in Maricopa County, AZ


One of the areas of the law that I find most interesting that I have only a passing familiarity with as the law currently exists is Probate Law.  I've covered a number of cases over the last year where lawyers or others have ransacked estates or exploited the aged or beneficiaries of testamentary estates for their own personal gain.  The dark advice when I was a young Bad Lawyer was: practice Probate Law, your clients can rarely complain--because, they are dead or incompetent.  Probate Law deals with not only decedent estates but it is intimately involved in the administration of guardianships and other forms of financial estates for handicapped or aged persons. 

Technically, the word "probate" means proof and refers to the process where a court looks at whether a will or trust is "true" in the sense of being the Will or Trust instrument of the person who purported to sign (or "execute') the document.  In reality, Probate courts have jurisdiction or power to decide all sorts of matters relating to property utilizing the tools of the old courts of "equity."  During the English common law era, courts of law and courts of Chancery had separate jurisdiction, in the modern era in America, under the rules of civil procedure these jurisdictional distinctions have been "merged" with codified probate laws.  While there are differences from state to state there are also many similarities based on "uniform" codes enacted by most states.

The coverage of issues in the Maricopa County Probate Court by AZCentral.com is worth reading.  As with all things, Maricopa, the problems there mirror the problems in OurCounty, and in your county.  Over the next year I plan to focus on the issue of lawyers, judges and others involved in elder abuse.  It will be a theme of this blawg, with the point being that we all hope to live long, healthy, and prosperous lives. 

The Arizona Republic found that the Maricopa County Probate Court has allowed probate estates to become "cash machines" for those who would abuse the elderly and handicapped.  The Republic's investigative work has identified four issues:  1. Familial and other disputes trigger the problems of system-exploitation with "fees mounting quickly;" 2. Cozy relationships among the lawyers, Judges, and probate vendors cost the vulnerable and beneficiaries excessively; 3. Persons objecting to the rapacious practices of these exploiters end up getting blamed; and 4. Oversight is lax.

Gotta change this system, before we all get old.

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  19. Maricopa Probate Courts are corrupt purely out to rob families dry of all of their assets while not paying any bills causing severe and horrifying financial damages to families members being sued by the "Ward's" creditors because the Court Appointed POA / Conservators are allowed to STEAL all the funds out of the "Wards" Bank Accounts while not paying any bills of the Ward then lying to creditors claiming other family members are the POA ...see Beverly Ann Swanson Probate Case. The Court Appointed Consetvator Gregory Weir completely drained bank accounts on December 3,2019 then Beverly Ann Swanson popped up DEAD on December 10 2019. It is SHOCKING and Horrifying what goes on in Maricopa County AZ PROBATE COURTS. FRAUD, ABUSE and RACKETEERING

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  20. Maricopa Probate Courts are corrupt purely out to rob families dry of all of their assets while not paying any bills causing severe and horrifying financial damages to families members being sued by the "Ward's" creditors because the Court Appointed POA / Conservators are allowed to STEAL all the funds out of the "Wards" Bank Accounts while not paying any bills of the Ward then lying to creditors claiming other family members are the POA ...see Beverly Ann Swanson Probate Case. The Court Appointed Consetvator Gregory Weir completely drained bank accounts on December 3,2019 then Beverly Ann Swanson popped up DEAD on December 10 2019. It is SHOCKING and Horrifying what goes on in Maricopa County AZ PROBATE COURTS. FRAUD, ABUSE and RACKETEERING

    #BeverlyAnnSwanson
    #GregoryWeir
    #GrossMisconduct
    #Fraud
    #Racketeering
    #Abuse

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  21. Judges get to Court Appoint their Buddies to cases so they get to RAKE in the MONEY doing little to no work at all. See Beverly Ann Swanson case in Maricopa County Probate Courts. The FRAUD, ABUSE, CORRUPTION AND racketeering that goes on is horrifying. Beverly Ann Swanson's Bank Account was completely DRAINED og all her funds by Gregory Weir in December 3, 2019 then she popped uo DEAD on December 10, 2019. Murder is suspected in this case to rob Beverly Ann Swanson of all her money by the Probate Court Appointed POA / Conservator Gregory Weir

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  22. Judges get to Court Appoint their Buddies to cases so they get to RAKE in the MONEY doing little to no work at all. See Beverly Ann Swanson case in Maricopa County Probate Courts. The FRAUD, ABUSE, CORRUPTION AND racketeering that goes on is horrifying. Beverly Ann Swanson's Bank Account was completely DRAINED on 12/3/2019 of all of her funds by Court Appointed Conservator Gregory Weir then she popped uo DEAD on December 10, 2019. Murder is suspected in this case to rob Beverly Ann Swanson of all her money by the Probate Court Appointed POA / Conservator Gregory Weir and the Attorneys who then immediately requested to dismiss this case once Beverly Ann Swanson's Wells Fargo Bank Account was COMPLETELY drained of all of her MONEY by the Court Appounted Consetvator Gregory Weir while he LIED to Beverly Swanson's creditors claiming that her daughter is her mother's POA so Beverly Swanson's creditors sue her daughtet all while Gregory Weir took off with all of Beverly Ann Swanson's funds in her Bank Accounts. All aided by the Maricopa County Probate Courts

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  23. What can victims to these CRIMINALS do for help or do victims have to tolerate being criminally violated and destroyed by MARICOPA County AZ Probate Court CRIMINALS?? It is literally sickening & shocking what these criminals all get away with

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  24. You need to create an offshore asset protection trust with an offshore LLCs and international bank accounts that will hold liens placed against your home, car, paintings, valuables, jewelry, etc. as well as your home and other valuables.

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    1. Well that's great advice if you are a corrupt person with a plan to take the estate from the beneficiaries .

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  25. LAUREN ANN CORNA is the person posting fabricated lies in the post "UnknownJanuary 12, 2020 at 12:03 AM about corruption in Maricopa (AZ) county and making false accusations against Gregory Weir. She is the one now facing 3 FELONY charges of ELDER ABUSE of Mr. Barry Bishop in Pinal County, after what she did to ransack Beverly Swansons assets and possessions. She was using a public defender up until she realized things are getting serious. Then this LYING THIEF has the audacity to accuse others of securing the account of Beverly Swanson to keep her from draining her account. This isn't the first time Lauren Corna has been in trouble with the law, and is currently facing a conviction on the 3 felonies she committed, so now with the help of an attorney she has hired is trying the old "insanity" defense. It's NOT going to work, and she'll be heading to jail some time after this posting once she's convicted.

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    1. United States Marine, GREGORY MARK WEIR (DOB 2/7/1959) Is liar and a fraud posting FALSE information about LAUREN ANN CORNA all over the internet including illegally blaming LAUREN ANN CORNA for the crimes that he actually committed .. see Maricopa County AZ Probate case #PB2019-004178. Currently GREGORY MARK WEIR is flat out refusing to comply to COURT ORDERS to provide a full accounting of his mother's estate all aided by the Corrupt Judges & corrupt Attorneys involved in this Probate Case in Maricopa County Arizona

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  26. Beware of GREGORY MARK WEIR who is an unemployed wack living in California. GREGORY MARK WEIR is a liar and a fraud who has several "Restraining Orders" filed against him by several women who Gregory Mark Weir has physically attacked, harassed & stalks non stop. GREGORY MARK WEIR has committed several crimes which he is blaming on his sister, LAUREN ANN CORNA and CARL MANNO for all while flat out lying all over the internet & social media sites to actually cover up his crimes that he, Gregory Mark Weir, has committed. GREGORY MARK WEIR is armed with guns & extremely violent & dangerous on the run hiding out to avoid getting arrested for his crimes criminally violating his elderly mother Beverly Swanson and his Uncle BARRY A. BISHOP who GREGORY MARK WEIR robbed blind including stealing his mother's identity while she was kept all drugged up in medical facilities in Scottsdale Arizona to illegally use his mother's identity to apply for loans and credit cards for his personal use and robbing all the money out of his mother's Bank Accounts money laundering all the funds out of his mother's Bank Account to hids personal Bank Account while lying to his mother's creditors and flat out lying to everyone. GREGORY MARK WEIR is a liar and a fraud.

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  27. No. LAUREN ANN CORNA is not the "unknown" person posting comments on this site as GREGORY MARK WEIR has claimed. GREGORY MARK WEIR is a liar and a fraud who is posting lies about LAUREN ANN CORNA and CARL MANNO all over the internet & social media sites to actually cover up his crimes which GREGORY MARK WEIR actually committed.

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    1. Nope, it is true that this person is Lauren Ann Weir Burkhardt Corna, and finally last known married to Michael Nowacki, did in fact robbed her own Uncle and Mother. Barry Bishop and Beverly Bishop Swanson of almost all their possessions. Faced 3 felony charges which were dropped without prejudice due to her victims passing away. Gregory Weir and myself are her unfortunate syblings. The courts kept moving the court dates out because she was deemed unfit to stand trial.

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  28. GREGORY MARK WEIR is a liar and a fraud who is posting lies all over the internet and social media sites about LAUREN ANN CORNA. GREGORY MARK WEIR actually snuck into Scottsdale Arizona to break into his mother's home, Beverly A. Swanson, ransacking and robbing his mother's home while she was in medical rehab facilities in Scottsdale, then GREGORY MARK WEIR stole his mother's identity while she was being kept all drugged up in medical facilities in Scottsdale to apply for loans & credit cards illegally using his mother's credentials and identity to apply for credit cards and loans for his personal use illegally using his mother, BEVERLY SWANSON (DOB 5/4/1937) and stealing all the money out of his mother's Bank Accounts on 12/3/2019. BEVERLY ANN WEIR then popped up DEAD on 12/10/2019 just days after being robbed by GREGORY MARK WEIR. This is all being covered up by the Maricopa County Probate Courts in Scottsdale Arizona. See Probate Court Case #PB-2019-004178

    GREGORY MARK WEIR who robbed his mother blind, BEVERLY ANN SWANSON, while she was being kept all drugged up in medical facilities, is currently flat out refusing to comply to Maricopa County AZ Courts "COURT ORDERS" to provide a full accounting of his mother's estate.. see Maricopa County AZ Court case #PB2019-004178, BEVERLY ANN SWANSON

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  29. UNITED STATES MARINE, GREGORY M. WEIR (DOB 2/7/1959) is a liar, a fraud and a CON MAN who snuck into Scottsdale Arizona to financially rape & rob his mother, Beverly Ann Swanson, dry imcluding stealing his mothers identt to apply for loans & credit cards for his personal use all while his mother BEVERLY ANN SWANSON was kept all drugged up in Scottsdale ARIZONA Medical Facilities then she popped up DEAD. Currently GREGORY MARK WEIR is flat out refusing to comply to COURT ORDERS to provide a full accounting of his mother's estate. see Maricopa County AZ Probate #PB2019-004178

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  30. Maricopa County Probate Courts are extremely corrupt who aided GREGORY MARK WEIR in financially raping & robbing his own mother, BEVERLY ANN SWANSON, as she was being secretly shuffled in and out of Scottsdale Medical Facilities and kept all drugged up against her will while GREGORY MARK WEIR robbed his mother blind including stealing his mother's identity and forging his mother's signature to apply for loans and credit cards for his personal use, illegally changing his mother's address to his address then completely robbing all the money out of his mother's Bank Accounts ... she then popped up DEAD,all bruised up with stab wound in her belly. Currently GREGORY MARK WEIR is flat out refusing to comply to COURT ORDERS to provide a full accounting of his mother's estate. No Enforcement of Court Orders aiding GREGORY M. WEIR in criminally violating his own mother BEVERLY ANN SWANSON causing other family members severe harm with his lies & crimes, Maricopa County AZ Probate case #PB2019-005178. Arizona Government Workers all stick together to cover up crimes committed by their fellow Government Workers including covering up for corrupt Judges & corrupt Attorneys who commit crimes.

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  31. Also follow LAUREN ANN CORNA on other sites too. LAUREN ANN CORNA is under a full blown attack by Government Workers ever since Judges and Government Officials in TEXAS raked in bribes and illegal kickbacks from wealthy criminals in the private sector all in exchange to cover up their horrific crimes brutally & savagely attacking and criminally violating LAUREN ANN CORNA literally non stop!!

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  32. #GovernmentCorruption
    #GovernmentCoverUps
    #LaurenAnnCorna

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