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...although Feininger had "intellectual ownership" of the paintings, he, Klumpp, was their "actual physical owner." Moreover, they were in East Germany, whose Communist government refused to surrender them to America. Their ownership had passed to Feininger's wife Julia on his death, and after she died in 1970 an executor of the Feininger estate, Art Lawyer Ralph F. Colin, went into high gear. It took him 14 more years of negotiation, a lawsuit against Klumpp and another against the government of East Germany to winkle out the missing paintings and get them to New York City. They were first exhibited...
...gilded isolation booth, they complain, replacing the English-speaking help with Poles. They further maintain that she plotted to siphon off his wealth with the help of her friend Nina Zagat, a Yale Law graduate and Wall Street attorney who drew up the last sequence of wills. As co-executor and trustee of the estate, she stands to make as much as $10 million in commissions and fees. In the contested will, five of Johnson's children were left nothing. The eldest son got a token million and a summer house on Cape Cod, Mass...
During the first days of the trial, Attorney-Executor Zagat testified that Johnson was of sound mind even when he signed the last of the wills, just 39 days before his death. From the time of his marriage in 1971, when he was 76 and his bride was 34, Johnson made 22 wills or major modifications that gave his wife ever greater shares of his estate. His final will was the fourth drafted in eight weeks. By then, say the children, their father was weakened, senile and fully in his wife's clutches. J. Seward Jr., 55, a sculptor...
Since the publication of Vladmir’s famed “Lolita” in 1955, Nabokov has served as executor of his father’s literary estate and as unofficial spokesman for the late author, who also wrote “Pale Fire” and the autobiographical “Speak, Memory...
...books? If she balks, consider taking one of the legal options above, depending on the size of your mother's estate and whether you hope ever to improve relations with your sister. Her POA ends with your mother's death. If she's also your mother's executor, however, then you would have to go to probate court for relief. But if you don't act before then, you may be left with nothing but an expensive lawsuit and a hollow feeling in your...