Posted on 05/01/2021 5:34:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
This is scary
“This is scary”
Yes, it is. The common link here is having some assets. If you don’t have anything to steal, they leave you alone.
Yikes! This is shameful and scary. Seems it can happen to anyone who isn’t liked by others for whatever reason.
What it tells me is don’t ask anyone for help.
Some people need to get dead.
Having lived through this sort of thing with my mother...
The law is stacked against concerned family members.
All that is required is the elder to say there is no problem and you have zero recourse. Especially, when the abuser lives with that elder and can gaslight the elder into beleiving that the other family members are simply “money grubbers” instead of genuinely concerned.
After that... you are powerless.
If there was a POA and that person could not get the subject out of the mess, that's even scarier.
Of course, if the POA goes bad, I'm not sure what the cure would be for that.
The legal/judicial hoops we had to jump through were beyond belief...and we almost lost (but won in the end).
The research I did on the subject at that time suggested that there was a time when it was very easy to get legal guardianship of a person and that,as a result,many people were exploited and abused in many ways...physically,financially and in other ways as well. But today,in some states at least,it's *too* difficult to get guardianship and,as a result,people are suffering (and dying) needlessly.
But under the current system the lawyers are always* well represented...and compensated.
Yup,not being married at the moment...and having no kids..I named my sister as my heath care proxy,my POA and the executor (executrix?) of my estate. My lawyer told me that the documents I signed give her the most authority allowed in every scenario (coma,respirator,emergency surgery,mental incompetence,etc,etc) allowed under state law.
See Post #9
“What it tells me is don’t ask anyone for help.”
What it also tells me is stay away from predatory lawyers who can exponentially increase the financial abuse by churning fees for themselves.
We have experienced these situations in our family and it is really bad. The system needs to be shut down.
It’s not just the elderly, one lady I know has been traveling no to get out for even get years. She had a brother who died and her parents are dead. She is 40.
“been traveling no to get out for even get years.”
what?
Well you have to trust your sister. I wouldn’t trust either of mine.
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Watch the documentary, “The Guardians.” Abuse in Nevada. Some people there have been jailed, the kingpin of the system who dictated to the Family Court judge, has not been jailed nor charged. This is Jared Shafer, who is a close family friend of the former attorney general, now Senator from Nevada, Catherine Masto.
If you look deeper, there are allegations that some of the funds pilfered were used as kickbacks to buy votes for candidates of both parties. Only one source for this, he claims illegal aliens (he calls them undocumented citizens) were forced to vote or be deported. I don’t know if he is reliable, why would you pay illegals if you were forcing them to vote?
Perhaps a guardianship would be appropriate in her case.
The problem is people can change on both sides after good agreements have been set up in a trust.
Don’t be afraid to redo your trusts as time goes by.
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