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The son of Brooke Astor, the famed philanthropist who passed away at age 105, was given a 1-3 year jail sentence for stealing money from her estate following her death.
The 85 year-old son was facing 25 years in prison for illegally taking from the multi-million dollar estate, but instead was given the lighter sentence.
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In an age where advance directives (or living wills) are becoming more and more frequently used, psychiatric patients are using them in increasing numbers as well.
Psychiatric patients are creating Psychiatric Advance Directives to decide medicine preferences as well as to prevent the patient from being signed out of the hospital on their own against the [...]

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David Thorner, a British citizen that labored on his cousin’s farm for 25 years only receiving room and board and the promise that one day the whole thing would be his, finally got his farm. It is valued at 2.3 million pounds (roughly $4.6 million) and is all his.
When Thorner’s cousin died without a written [...]

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