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 ...

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.

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 ...