Nancy and her granddaughter, Katherine, when Nancy was still relatively healthy and in control. The suspicious will left no specific bequest to either Katherine or her mother, Wendy. The only specific bequests are Brett Hermance and wife of attorney Lawrence D. Ross.
Estate of Nancy L. Hermance
How attorney Lawrence D. Ross, aided by the New Jersey courts, gained control of an isolated, disoriented elderly woman’s self-made millions.
How attorney Lawrence D. Ross, aided by the New Jersey courts, gained control of an isolated, disoriented elderly woman’s self-made millions.
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Nancy Lee Hermance of Madison, NJ, who suffered from Parkinson’s disease, died in January, 2005, with suspicious circumstances surrounding the rewriting of her will. Amidst several reports of abuse and neglect by Hermance’s only son and primary caregiver, four new wills were written in the five months preceding her death. In the final draft, the will attorney's wife was awarded the $650,000 real estate contract on the family home, and Hermance's only daughter, a single mother in good standing, was cut out of the inheritance, leaving all assets to her brother. All prior known wills, from 1986 to August 2004, specified an equal distribution of the estate between Mrs. Hermance’s two children.
