For more than a decade, employees of a violent Mexican Cartel, posing as sales representatives, have contacted timeshare owners and offered to buy their timeshares back for a princely sum. They persuade the owners to wire large sums to Mexico for upfront fees for listing advertisements, government fines, and other bogus costs.  Then, of course, they clean out the victims’ bank accounts. How Does The Timeshare Scam Work? The scheme is enormous....

The four kids had been locked in litigation over their parents’ estate for years. Hundreds of thousands of dollars had been paid for lawyers, handwriting experts, discovery, appraisals, and forensic accountants. Each penny spent only solidified the family’s mutual enmity. With the final trial date looming, the parties were frantically preparing exhibits and litigation briefs when their lawyers received an email from the court coordinator. Had they, the coordinator politely...

On May 19, 1860, Hamilton Washington, a man of many prejudices and superstitions, executed a will that left his entire estate to his sister, Mary Beazley.  On June 6, 1868, Hamilton executed a new will that left “pretty much all of his estate” to Wm. B. Denson, who “was no relative of the testator .” Then Hamilton died, leaving such a mess that it went up to the Texas Supreme...