Miscellaneous

Annals of chutzpah?

By Walter Olson, Ted Frank, and David Nieporent

In Nova Scotia, Astrid Margaret Literski is locked in a battle with Revenue Canada over whether she is entitled to child tax benefit checks associated with her late daughter Eveleigh. Literski is incarcerated after pleading guilty to second-degree murder for killing the girl, then 4, in 2003. The tax agency says it wants back some of the money it sent Literski because it learned after the fact that the girl was actually living with her father, her primary caretaker, at the time. (Chris Lambie, "Killer mom fights to keep child tax credit", Halifax Chronicle Herald, Mar. 1).

Full post as published by Overlawyered on March 03, 2008 (boomark / email).