:)thank you Father.
Here is more on WHY Dannilynn will get a chunk of change from the Marshall Estate.
When ANS went to court in Texas she was way outgunned and outsmarted by Pierce Marshall. What she claimed was true... old man Marshall intended to give take care of her financially. He instructed his attorneys to develop a catchall trust and at one point even told them to put together a company that would be Anna’s. Additionally there were was strong evidence that he wanted Anna to have 1/2 of his new community...that would be the increase in wealth that he had while he was married to her.
What she didn’t have was proof...but she got lawyered up by the time they got to California. Maybe Stern had something to do with this...if so...he does deserve some serious money because the tide turned.
Vickie’s new attorneys demands for discovery resuoted in over 475 boxes containing over 2 million pages of documents. Those documents were pored over like children digging through manure looking to find that pony!
They found plenty. Pierce had hired hired Edwin Hunter to take over his dad’s estate plan and his father had approved...however, what dad didn’t know is that Pierce was controlling Hunter. Hunter immediately made drastic changes to the estate plan and unbeknownst to the old man removed all of his control of his assets. This was done by drafting long documents in small print (the old man couldn’t read well anymore) and misrepresented the documents when they read to them (or removed pages). Up until his death Marshall was unaware that he had signed away his fortune to his son’s total control.
Hunter had testified that he didn’t know anything about the catchall trust, the companies, the desire of old man Marshall to provide for ANS. But...lo and behold...there were BILLS where he had made calls about these subjects and charged for drafting documents that were provided by the discovery demands!
Pierce was also caught in a bunch of lies and eventually the court found him guilty of interfering with ANS’s expectancy; for conspiring to suppress or destroy the intervivos gift; and to strip Howard of his assets by backdating, altering, and otherwise falsifying documents and presenting them to J. Howard under false pretenses.
The appeal that Pierce won in the 9th district did not clear Pierce of these acts but said that the Texas Probate Court had exclusive jurisdiction.
That appeal is what ANS appealed to the Supreme Court where she found an ally... the President of the United States who sent one of WAshington’s best and brightest to argue on her behalf.
The Supreme Court decision was unanimous and ANS won the right to go back to the California court now that it was clear that they legally did have jurisdiction!
So... there is no doubt that money will be forthcoming for Danielynn and if they consider the increased value of that gift in interest it could be enormous. (The Marshall family has been unwilling to value the estate as they have ongoing issues with the IRS over that point).
Hope that helps explain it a little more...