The color-of-law interception (theft) of family generational asset transfers is a serious organized crime industry operating out of state probate courts. The variety and number of schemes and artifice employed vary according to the case.  Affidavit of Witness

 

Attorney Stephen A. Mendel

Bar Card Number: 13930650

TX License Date: 11/06/1987

The Mendel Law Firm, L.P.

1155 Dairy Ashford, Suite 104

Houston 77079

United States (US)

Phone: (281) 759-3213
Fax: 281-759-3214

Attorney Bobbie G. Bayless

Bar Card Number: 01940600

TX License Date: 05/26/1980

Bayless and Stokes

Houston Office

2931 Ferndale Street

Houston, Texas 77098

Phone: 713-522-2224

Fax  713-522-2218

Attorney Candace L. Kunz-Freed

Bar Card Number: 24041282
TX License Date: 11/06/2003

9545 Katy Freeway, Suite 400,

Houston, Texas 77024

713-467-1060

Attorney Bernard Lisle Mathews III

State Bar of Texas ID Number: 13187450

Staff Attorney with Vacek & Freed

Attorney Neal Even Spielman

Bar Card Number: 00794678

TX License Date: 11/03/1995

Griffin and Mathews

1155 Dairy Ashford Suite 300

Houston, Texas 77079

Phone: 281-870-1124

Fax: 281-870-1647

Attorney Corey S. Reed

Thompson Coe

4400 Post Oak Parkway

Suite 1000

Houston, TX 77027

713-403-8213

creed@thompsoncoe.com

Gregory Albert Lester Esq.

Eligible to Practice in Texas

Bar Card Number: 12235700
TX License Date: 11/02/1984

Primary Practice Location: Houston , Texas

PO Box 79766
Houston, TX 77279-9766

Practice Areas: Wills-Trusts-Probate

Anita Brunsting

Wannabe Family

Inheritance Thief

203 Bloomingdale Circle

Victoria, Texas 77904

Mr. Jason Bradley Ostrom

Deceased

Bar Card Number: 24027710
TX License Date: 11/01/2000

Primary Practice Location: Houston , Texas

Practice Areas: Litigation: Commercial, Real Estate, Wills-Trusts-Probate

Statutory Profile Last Certified On: 01/29/2021

Christine Riddle Butts

Former Judge Harris County Probate Court No. 4

 Riddle & Butts, LLP

Bar Card Number: 24004222

TX License Date: 12/11/1997

Primary Practice Location: Houston , Texas

8777 W Rayford Rd

Spring, TX 77389-5187

 

 

Ms. L. Darlene Payne Smith

Eligible to Practice in Texas

Crain, Caton & James, P.C.

dsmith@craincaton.com

Bar Card Number: 18643525
TX License Date: 11/06/1987

Primary Practice Location: Houston , Texas

1401 McKinney St Ste 1700
Houston, TX 77010-4037

 

 

 

 

         DOES YOUR FACE BELONG HERE?

 

INTRODUCTION

Every year millions upon millions of dollars are stolen in staged litigation schemes devised with the sole purpose of generating fraudulent bills for alleged attorney’s fees. In the process of such schemes, unsuspecting citizens are being pulled into a vortex of litigation posturing, disguised as legitimate court proceedings. The result is financial and emotional devastation for the victims and unjust enrichment for the color-of-law predators. A key battleground, well known for such staged litigation schemes, are the state probate courts. The dot com revolution generated great wealth and we, as a nation, are in the midst of the largest transfer of family generational wealth in our history.

The objective of the probate mafia is to intercept (steal) those assets using a cookie cutter system in order to minimizing the work while maximizing the return on investment. The problem confronting victims is where to find remedy. In probate, the heirs are held in stasis (hostage) while the attorneys pose and posture, manufacturing unnecesasry attorneys fees. In the end the fees are so large the family has to submit to a settlement agreement (contract) that is always under terms drafted by the predators themselves.

Every estate planning and asset protection services provider will tell you that a pour-over will, with independent administration devising solely to your living trust, will spare you the horror of guardianship protection and spare your children from suffering the well known horrors the probate courts have been known to offer. The legal and equitable theories are generally sound. The problem is in getting judges and attorneys to burden themselves with the law, when they are clothed in self-manufactured doctrines of impunity; having everything to gain and nothing to lose.

The Case in Point

Grift of the Brunstings is a two-part story that includes a front end and a back end. The front end is an estate planning bait and switch that follows a well beaten path and the back end is an attorney exploitation of the front-end setup that also follows a well beaten path. The backend is where the attorneys pose and posture and generate bills for unearned fees while the court keeps the suckers in stasis by not ruling on anything. (See comments on Page 35 Ln. 15-18).

Affidavit of Witness