Donna Herring, a Camden real estate agent, is in hot water for faking the will of her daughter’s fiancée after he died in a car accident. Matthew Seth Jacobs was a survivor of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, which afforded him a multimillion-dollar settlement, and when he died in a car accident, his will left his nearly $2 million estate to Alex Peterson, Herring’s daughter, with only $50,000 being left to Jacobs’s son. Herring almost got away with the scheme, but right after the assets were distributed, evidence was discovered that showed the will was a forgery. The government has already seized assets from Herring that were part of Jacobs’s estate, including $720,000 in cash, four homes, and a car. After allegedly confessing that she knew her mother created the will after Jacobs’s death, Peterson will standby as her mother goes on trial for the crimes that she almost got away with.
See Mark Friedman, Fake Will Scheme Puts Camden Real Estate Agent in Hot Water, Arkansas Business, January 30, 2017.
