William Shakespeare's observation that "What's past is prologue" is a ready reference when
we're thinking about the future.
We often see that what has happened until now sets the stage for what will happen in
the future.
When it comes to California trust, probate and estate litigation the past year – 2017
– is likely a preface to what will take place in 2018.
Hackard Law's 2017 efforts reflect a period of intense litigation focusing on the protection
of elders and/or their beneficiaries against estate and trust wrongdoers.
Our firm filed trust or elder financial abuse cases in the probate and civil courts of more
than twenty California counties.
Our team of lawyers continues to grow in order to handle the influx of cases arising from
the growing epidemic of elder financial abuse.
Our efforts are not centered on litigation alone; we've also worked to bring attention
to the plight of elders stung by abuse.
My book, The Wolf at the Door: Undue Influence and Elder Financial Abuse, helps to shine
a spotlight on a very significant national problem.
When we look back over the last year we can apply the truth in Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Jr.'s observation that "The Life of the law has not been logic.
It has been experience."
While attorney-client privilege and privacy issues prevent me from detailing the particularities
of recent litigation, I can briefly generalize the kinds of circumstances and events that
generate the need for judicial intervention.
The following factors often come into play: The Aftereffects of Addiction.
Drug and alcohol addiction create destruction in all areas of the life of the addicted and
his or her loved ones.
Such aftereffects in estate and trust litigation involve the use of undue influence by an addicted
son or daughter against a vulnerable parent that results in a transfer of assets to the
addicted child.
These transfers are often the focus of a challenge to late or deathbed amendments to wills or
trusts.
Backstabber Baloney.
This title may not be appropriate for law reviews, but it often fits the circumstances
of elder financial abuse.
Given that the abuse is visited upon vulnerable elders, an abuser takes advantage of the vulnerability
by bad-mouthing a sibling or siblings, isolating the elder for his or her protection, or convincing
the elder that the siblings frozen out by the abuser simply don't want to visit mom
or dad.
Cons, Caretakers and Cancer.
Elders can be conned and are often the particular targets of wrongdoers.
Crimes against seniors are reprehensible and are a concern for all families.
While caretakers can be a great blessing to a family in need, errant caretakers can be
a nightmare.
Caretaker oversight is critical to looking out for the financial and physical health
of seniors.
I mention cancer because we've litigated a number of cases where trusts were amended
either shortly before or during a decedent's placement into hospice care.
In cases like these, it's usually pretty obvious that undue influence was exerted,
as the lawful beneficiaries of estate plans were cut out in favor of the wrongdoer.
Hackard Law is looking forward to 2018.
We'll continue to focus on practice on estate, probate, trust and elder financial abuse disputes
in California's large urban areas, whether that's Los Angeles, Sacramento, Alameda,
Santa Clara, or Orange and Riverside.
We're dedicated to protecting client interests, and you can contact us today at 916-313-3030.
We'll be happy to see how we can best help you.
Thank you.
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California law enforcement readies for new marijuana laws New video - Duration: 10:44.
California law enforcement readies for new marijuana laws New video
California law enforcement readies for new marijuana laws
San Francisco
licensed businesses around
California can begin legally growing and selling marijuana for recreational use Monday and a hodgepodge of enforcement
Agencies will be trying to make sure they adhere to a slew of new pot laws
Since no single agency has overarching
Responsibility supporters and opponents of legalization to worry how while the laws will be followed?
Three state agencies will issue a combined 19 types of permits to growers retailers manufacturers and distributors
Each agency has enforcement officers tasked with cracking down on unlicensed operators in addition
Other state agencies such as fish and wildlife and the narcotic enforcement
Bureau said they will rely on marijuana task force's already in place to continue eradicating illegal growers and sellers
the newly created State Bureau of cannabis Control
Which licenses retail outlets said it has hired several officers to help crack down on
unlicensed shops and plans to hire more in the coming months, but
much of the work of the resting illegal operators will still rely on sheriffs and police departments
We are a pretty small operation Bureau spokesman Alex Traverso said
He said about eight enforcement officers will be in place January 1st
though bureau chief Laurie a Jax said
Enforcement won't be a priority in the first months of the new year as the agency focuses on getting retailers licensed
The Bureau has issued fewer than 200 temporary business licenses so far
That's a fraction of what ultimately will be distributed once los angeles san francisco and other major local governments start issuing their own
licenses which are required to get a state permit a
small number of retail shops from Berkeley to San Diego say
They will open New Year's Day
while an increasing number of states have legalized marijuana and one form or another all uses of the drug remain illegal under federal law
US Attorney General jeff Sessions has said federal authorities still are contemplating how they will enforce pot laws in California
Assemblyman Tom Blackie has introduced legislation that would make the California Highway Patrol the point agency for enforcing state marijuana laws
Especially those seeking to stem the flow of weed out of state if we want to avoid intervention from the federal government
We need to do everything we can to crack down on illegal activity and prevent cannabis from being exported the Palmdale Republicans said
Without a central point the coordinating action statewide
Accomplishing this would be a huge challenge the bill will be considered when legislative sessions resumed in January
Ajax worked for 20 years in the state's alcoholic beverage control department before Governor Jerry Brown appointed her to run to cannabis Bureau
She said regulating marijuana is more complicated than policing alcohol because counties and cities have considerable authority over pot
State laws include that consumers be at least 21 that businesses not be within 600 feet
183 metres of schools and must close by 10:00 p.m.. They're also required to have 24-hour or video surveillance
counties and cities of similar requirements with a few twists
Oakland City officials citing disparate marijuana arrest records have given applicants convicted of pot related felonies preference in obtaining
permits in certain neighborhoods
Several counties and cities used existing medical marijuana laws to adopt recreational use rules by striking the word medical from the ordinances
keeping in place existing local tax rates
Marijuana businesses also will be required to pay state taxes some of the tax revenues earmarked for enforcement
But Sheraton several counties say they're already pouring resources into marijuana enforcement
Siskiyou County leaders recently declared a state of emergency and called on the governor to assist the sheriff with eradicating an influx of illegal farms
The county banned commercial cultivation, but that hasn't stopped the migration of marijuana farmers snapping up cheap land in remote Northern
California we are overwhelmed Sheriff John low P said
Mendocino County Sheriff Tom almond has similar concerns in a county that has legalized marijuana in the heart of the fabled pot-growing
region called the Emerald triangle
Please do not continue to say that marijuana is a totally harmless herb that God put on this earth
And we don't know why we're fighting over it he told County Supervisors who he said we're overlooking the criminal aspects of growing marijuana in
Los Angeles County sheriff's officials are preparing to see a possible increase in marijuana dispensary robberies and drivers who are high behind the wheel
Sheriff Jim McDonald said he believes legalization will be eye-opening for a lot of people the public's perception is that wait as innocuous?
That this is something they did 40 years ago, and it is no big deal. He said
Well today's marijuana is not yesterday's marijuana the active ingredient THC
Is so much higher today than back 40 years ago in?
Some cases the farmers are planting on government lands hidden deep in forests patrolled by state wildlife wardens
So-called guerrilla farms illegally set up on public property or remote private property without the owner's knowledge have troubled rural law
enforcement officials and federal authorities for years
California's Fish & Wildlife Department created a marijuana enforcement team three years ago to stem illegal Gardens in the state's forests
The agency also created a watershed enforcement teams to crackdown on marijuana
farmers who illegally differed streams used bent pesticides or otherwise harm the environment
Fish and Game captain Paul Foley said the department has no plans to change its enforcement strategy after
January 1st and will continue to concentrate on environmental crimes and illegal farms on public
lands an
estimated 1,000 illegal farms controlled by organized crime operate on public property in California
He said we're going to keep on keeping on with enforcement Foy said we stay busy
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Why I Came to Arizona State University: ASU grads from California - Duration: 1:28.
I'm Gaelle Gralnek.
I grew up in Phoenix but I live in Pasadena, California.
My name is Kenneth Grambow.
I currently live in Oakland, California.
I graduated from WP Carey School of Business in 2003
with a management degree.
I graduated from undergrad
with a degree in accounting in 1986
and then I went to the law school here
and I graduated in 1989.
I work for Gap.
I'm a regional facilities manager
for the Pacific Northwest.
I'm a lawyer.
I work for the California State University system
doing litigations.
Coming from California, one great advantage
ASU has to offer is
you get the experience of being away from home,
but you're not so far away from home that
you can't visit for the weekend
or your parents can't visit for the weekend.
ASU prepared me for where I am today
with the education that I received.
It taught me how to
be a leader.
It gave me a lot of opportunities.
ASU really has something to offer everyone.
Whether you're interested in athletics
whether you're interested in the Greek system
Every resource was available to me at ASU.
So if I needed tutoring, there was a tutor center.
If I needed some guidance, there was guidance counselors.
There was just a great network to be a part of.
Whether you want to get involved in academic communities
there really is something for everyone
and I was able to look for a lot of different experiences
when I was there.
Go Devils!
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Nestlé Is Stealing Our Drinking Water At Staggering Rates: It's All About Big Money - Duration: 5:11.
A two-year investigation indicates Nestle has rights to about eight and a half million
gallons a year of water, but on average from 1947 to 2015, the company has been collecting
roughly 60 million gallons of water a year.
The report says a significant portion of the water currently diverted by Nestle appears
to be diverted without a valid basis of rights.
In a statement, Nestle said it was pleased the report reaffirms that it holds valid rights
to a quote "significant amount of water."
The spokesperson continued in this statement, saying, "We will continue to operate lawfully,
according to these existing rights, and will comply fully with the California law."
Nestle was given 60 days to submit to an interim compliance plan.
The company is also being encouraged to cut back on its water withdrawals.
This, unless it can show valid rights to its current sources.
Nestle has contended that it inherited rights dating back to more than a century to collect
water from the San Bernardino Mountains.
Opponents filing complaints argue Nestle lacked proper permits, and that the water usage could
harm the local environments, as well as its surrounding wildlife.
This also opens the door for more arguments surrounding the water collection in other
national forests throughout the state, from here to Mt. Shasta, especially since California
is now in its fourth straight year of being in a drought.
In Los Angeles, Natasha Sweatte, RT.
All right.
For more on this, let's go now to host of America's Lawyer, Mike Papantonio.
All right, Mike.
What recourse might the state of California and the water board have available to them
against Nestle?
They have a massive lawsuit.
Listen, Nestle's a company that could best be described as a resource extraction business.
No different than any other business that, say, pollutes a river, or pollutes air.
Those are public commons, and people that are affected by that certainly can articulate
a lawsuit, where they say, "Look, you've taken all this from us.
You've affected our tax base.
You've done many things in a chain of events that should enable us to take you to court."
Understand, you will not have the regulators do anything that's meaningful to Nestle.
Most people probably associate Nestle with the chocolate chip cookies, but for decades,
they've been working to privatize water systems around the globe.
This is a great example.
What's happening right now in California is that someone finally had enough sense to look
at the permits that Nestle has to extract water from San Bernardino National Forest,
and the state water board found that the company was bottling and selling more than 60 million
gallons of water a year, when their permit only allows for eight and a half million gallons.
Here's the point.
The government won't do anything about it.
This has been going on since 1947.
Nestle has a huge political influence there.
It's going to have to be a citizens kind of lawsuit, but I can think of a thousand different
ways to articulate that lawsuit.
Hopefully somebody will do that out in California, but rather than giving the company a massive
fine, there needs to be more punishment.
This is stealing water from one of the most drought-damaged areas in the United States,
and it's nothing but thievery, is what it is.
Pap, as you've said for the citizens to cause a fuss over this, is there sufficient evidence
or sufficient damage, given that the state has been in a drought for so many years?
Is there enough here for Californians to bring, say, a class action lawsuit?
It doesn't have to be a class action.
It could be a farmer that can somehow establish that this draw down from the water supply
affected his ability to conduct business on his ranch.
It can be any number of variations of that.
Somebody out there needs to be creative enough to go after those clients, to bring a lawsuit,
to stop this, because you got to understand.
Government won't do anything.
Regulators, Jerry Brown, will not do a thing about this because the money that's pumped
in from this company to so many political races.
Just look, just a few years ago, the President of Nestle was on record saying that water
is not actually a basic human right, so therefore his company should be able to extract water
resources from any area of the world and sell it back to locals.
That's the mentality they have, and until you take their money away, and until somebody
articulates a criminal act against them, then this is going to continue.
Real-
Just by the defense industry, Nestle always seems to be ready to capitalize on tragedy.
Real briefly, Pap, will Nestle continue to pump the water then, given that there hasn't
been any source of a cease and desist letter issued?
Oh.
They will get ... They will do this till the last minute.
Look, Flint, Michigan.
They've gone up to Flint, Michigan.
Nestle announced that they're going to increase their water extraction in Michigan, further
starving residents of clean water.
This is a corrupt company.
That's the problem.
We have to treat it like that.
All right.
Thanks so much.
From America's Lawyer, Mike Papantonio.
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BREAKING NEWS Out Of California… BEWARE If You Are WHITE - Duration: 3:33.
BREAKING NEWS Out Of California…
BEWARE If You Are WHITE It seems like the only lasting legacy we're
going to have from the Obama administration is the deep racial division that is ripping
our nation apart, a plan devised by leftists to help set themselves up as saviors of the
minority so they can get more and more of these demographics to the polls come election
time.If you truly do a study of history, you'll discover rather quickly why it's so ironic
for minorities to be so attached to the Democratic Party and the left-wing movement in general,
given their deep rooted history of racism and fondness for Nazism.
If you haven't read Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg or The Big Lie by Dinesh D'Souza,
you need to do so as soon as possible.
It breaks this all down.Anyway, a couple of nutjob professors from California have provided
yet another example of the racial strife ushered in by the previous eight years of progressivism.
Fox News is reporting:Two California professors are criticizing farmers' markets for causing
"environmental gentrification" in which "habits of white people are normalized."
San Diego State University geography professors Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando J.
Bosco contend that farmers' markets are "white spaces" oppressing minorities in
a chapter for "Just Green Enough," an environmental anthology focused on urban development.
Environmental gentrification is defined as a process where "environmental improvements
lead to … the displacement of long-term residents," according to the anthology.
The professors, as reported by Campus Reform, say farmers' markets are "exclusionary"
because locals cannot "afford the food and/or feel excluded from these new spaces."
The SDSU professors, who teach classes like "Geography of Food" and "Food Justice,"
argue that "farmers' markets are often white spaces where the food consumption habits
of white people are normalized."
While such markets are typically set up to help combat "food deserts" in low-income
and minority communities, the academics argue that they instead "attract households from
higher socio-economic backgrounds, raising property values and displacing low-income
residents and people of color."
And all of that is still just quoting from the mild insanity this pair spewed forth into
the atmosphere with this "report."
Believe it or not, it actually gets nuttier.
If you listen too long to the radical left, you end up walking away from a conversation
believing all white folk are bad and are responsible for all the evil going down across the globe,
as if racism is strictly a white man problem.
Newsflash.
Racism is an issue with all of humanity.
Every race and ethnicity battles with hating someone else because of their skin color.
It's an unfortunate part of human nature.
Solutions to the problem of racism must absolutely target it across the board, otherwise such
a solution is just another part of the problem.
Contrary to what these two wackadoos suggest, not everything on planet earth is racist or
intolerant or whatever liberal buzzword you want to throw out there.
Most of the rhetoric being tossed around by the media is simply there to keep us at each
other's throats and to serve the agenda of liberals in the Democratic Party.
Let's stop drinking the Kool-Aid.
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Black Market Weed Could Take Off After California Legalization | NBC Nightly News - Duration: 1:49.
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California Pot Smokers Looking to Buy on Jan. 1 May Have to Wait - Duration: 1:00.
California Pot Smokers Looking to Buy on Jan. 1 May Have to Wait
Los Angeles, San Francisco among cities not quite ready.
State regulators rushing to get dispensary licenses approved.
California will legalize recreational marijuana on Jan.
1, but consumers hoping to score some weed that day in two of its biggest cities are in for a bummer.
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