WILKES-BARRE CITIZENS VOICE: The last will and testament is supposed to be the final word on a person’s life, wealth and material assets. In almost all cases, after the required paperwork and court hearings, the document becomes a public record, on file at the local courthouse or county office for anyone to see…
In April, three months after the legendary former Penn State football coach’s death from lung cancer at age 85, a Centre County judge ordered the will and all related court filings permanently sealed.
Even the judge’s sealing order and the petition a Paterno attorney filed to request the order were sealed, erasing from the public record any explanation for the maneuver, which estate law experts and the Centre County register of wills called exceedingly rare… (more)
Nice to know that there is a newspaper out there that can investigate and report. LNP can’t even go upstairs to the ownership to find out what’s going on with the hotel they co-own.