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New Jersey: hotline to report elder financial fraud

June 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

For New Jersey residents and victims of attorney Barbara Liebermann: Were you or a loved one victimized by Barbara Lieberman? To submit a claim, contact the Division of Criminal Justice at or mail to 1325 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, NJ [- more...]
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New Jersey: court-appointed attorney pleads guilty to $3.8 Million theft from multiple elderly clients

June 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

Easy prey Elderly and vulnerable, 16 men and women became prime targets for theft. Betrayal of trust: Part Two Barbara and Ken Martin never stood a chance. Thoroughly outmatched, their legal fight to free Barbara Martin’s aunt, Helen Hugo, from the grip of what they believed to be an unwarranted guardianship in 2012 ended in a humiliating defeat. Not only was Hugo, then 81, declared mentally incapacitated, but the last of her retirement savings was awarded to the attorneys who represented [- more...]
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New York: Fox News5 Investigates – Nassau County judge approves triple and quadruple billing by guardian and his attorney

June 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

June 17, 2015 Nassau County, NY Fox News5’s Mary Garofalo investigates the cases of Esta Veron and Lillian Rubian – both women were put under court-ordered guardianship of Sam Rausman and attorney William Bryk who proceeded to triple and quadruple bill Ms. Rubian for “social services” and related guardianship and legal services.  And it’s all legal, because a judge has approved without question or oversight, and against any complaints by the former ward, all [- more...]
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Pennsylvania: a tale of two guardianships

June 15, 2015 // 0 Comments

From Rebel Pundit’s Michael Volpe comes a detailed of two different guardianships, both gone horribly awry.  Both guardianships, while involving two unrelated families, occurred in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania’s Orphan’s Court, in front of Judge Stanley Ott.  Both guardianships were awarded by Judge Ott to frequent court-appointee, attorney Diane Zabowski, in direct contradiction to existing Power of Attorney, Wills, and other requests that the ward be represented by counsel [- more...]
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Opinion: Nobody likes Guardianship

June 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

Opinion: Nobody likes Guardianship During my recent appearance on NPR-WLRN in Miami an individual named Steve who claimed to be the past president of the Florida State Guardianship Association called in to comment on the program that was devoted to the recent changes in Florida law as a result of the passage of Senate Bill five, AAAPG’s first major legislation success. He and another caller who claimed to be a guardian as well were bemoaning the fact that legislation is making it harder for [- more...]
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Colorado: Arapahoe judge dismisses official who heirs say mishandled estates

May 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

By David Olinger The Denver Post   The chief District Court judge in Arapahoe County has dismissed a public administrator who had been accused by four families of mishandling their estates with her business partner. The order from Judge William Sylvester, dated Thursday, discharged Tamra Palmer “effective immediately” without explaining why. But it came after two previous orders from the judge concerning her business relationship with another lawyer and a story in The Denver [- more...]
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White paper: Keeping up with those crafty guardians

May 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

It hasn’t been easy for those abusive guardians. Think about all the work they have to do to rape an estate, isolate award from his family, make sure doctors appropriately poison their wards with atypical anti-psychotics so they become drooling vegetables unable to complain, pushing endless litigation against family members and making it all look just so clean and simple and legal! Guardians have to be very clever and crafty, so we’d like to report on some of the most incredible [- more...]
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Guardianship: It can happen to you

May 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

Question for those in the general public—-What do all of the following have in common? Disney family Ariel Winter Glenn Campbell Paul Walker Mickey Rooney Leona Helmsley Tom Benson Willi Berchau Peter Falk Adam Youch Donald Sterling Charlie Sheen Bobbi Kristina Brown Liliane Bettencourt Casey Kasem Denise Richards Brian Wilson Mark Glasser B.B. King Sarah Hershberger Gary Coleman Terry Schiavo Robin Williams Octomom Suleman Tony Curtis Alexander Calder Michael Jackson Mary Sykes Zsa Zsa [- more...]
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Florida: In guardianship bill, checks that could have helped others

May 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

From the Sarasota, FL Herald-Tribune: On a Sunday in December, Don Herman looked at the front page of his Herald-Tribune and was carried back to a harrowing time in his life three years before. He remembered the two weeks in 2012 when he and his wife, Kathryn, were held under guardianship by the state of Florida — and he lost her forever. After the publication of “The Kindness of Strangers: Inside Elder Guardianship in Florida,” three bills to reform the system were introduced in this [- more...]
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