A lawyer who was found to have exerted undue influence over his mother must reimburse her estate for legal fees and costs stemming from a suit over his handling of her finances, an appeals court has ...

The legal saga surrounding the estate of Dr. Laura Dean Head—a respected professor at San Francisco State University—is a powerful example of how undue influence and disinheritance can put an estate ...

In a probate proceeding, Richard Feigen's children allege that his will offered for probate, which was prepared by Zabel and Schulte Roth & Zabel, was the product of undue influence and fraud by Mr.

When a person manipulates someone into changing their will, what’s a family member who finds themselves cut out of an inheritance to do? The answer has played out in courtrooms for hundreds of years ...

Family estrangement is common, and it leads to significant emotional distress. As an expert in all forms of unethical influence, including cults, I frequently hear from families in which a loved one ...

This is a tale of undue influence. Meet Orville. He had a life full of accomplishments. He had flown planes during World War II, worked for a major airline and successfully ran a small business.