Guardianship survivor

Florida: Little common ground in debate on guardianship

October 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

By Barbara Peters Smith Published: Monday, October 19, 2015 at 3:59 p.m. http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20151019/ARTICLE/151019615/0/search?tc=ar CLEARWATER – With professional guardians on one side of a public library meeting room Monday, and those who consider themselves victims of Florida’s adult guardianship system on the other, little consensus was achieved in a debate on whether the current system endangers elders or safeguards them. Clearwater guardian Fernando [- more...]

Intellectual Property Rights attorney Diane Krausz is pictured outside Civil Supreme Court after having lost guardianship of famed pop artist Peter Max.

New York: Artist Peter Max can go home with his wife, judge rules

October 9, 2015 // 0 Comments

Pop Artist Peter Max was freed Wednesday after being allegedly held against his will at a secret location for the last month by his son and a court-appointed guardian. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Carol Edmead ordered the 77-year-old be produced in court after an emergency application by his wife, Mary Max, charged that he was being kept in “illegal, unwanted and forced isolation from his wife and longtime friends.” The jubilant pair shared a tender kiss outside their Upper West Side [- more...]

No longer a ward of any state, WWII veteran Guadalupe Olvera’s settled in the home of the daughter who had to “kidnap” him when all else failed.

Nevada: Escape was only option for an old soldier trapped in guardian system

August 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

Posted April 11, 2015 – 7:36pm Clark County’s private guardians may protect — or just steal and abuse By COLTON LOCHHEAD LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL APTOS, Calif. — Guadalupe Olvera sits in his tall green chair, blowing a familiar tune on his harmonica as a baseball game plays on his television. The harmony echoes off the walls of his daughter’s 1960s-era home, filling the air with an enticing melody. Although slowed by age at 95, the World War II veteran regularly attends Veterans [- more...]

Julie London Ferguson with her mother Marise Ferguson in happier, freer times

Florida: Judge calls for scrutiny of guardianship case

August 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sarasota Herald-Tribune By Barbara Peters Smith Published: Friday, August 7, 2015 at 2:43 p.m. SARASOTA – A circuit judge appointed an independent court monitor on Friday to investigate the case of a Siesta Key resident and former art gallery owner who has spent the last two and a half years under the control of a professional guardianship, after attorneys for her daughter argued that the hasty procedure making her a ward of the court was a violation of due process. Facts ABOUT THE SERIES [- more...]

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Nevada: KTNV’s Darcy Spears frees couple from Clark County’s guardianship system

July 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

By Darcy Spears. CREATED Jun 12, 2015 Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) — Free at last. That’s the case for one family after a two-year battle to get out of Clark County’s guardianship system. It’s the latest in a lengthy Contact 13 investigation that’s given families a voice in a system where they say they were silenced. Hugs and tears outside Family Court after a guardianship hearing that paved the way for Julie Belshe to take the last steps in bringing her torn apart family [- more...]

Nevada: Clark County Family Court frees five wards from adult guardianship

July 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

From Nevada resident and Guardian-Watcher Richard Black, AAAPG has received more good news concerning the release of 5 wards from Clark County’s adult guardianship program. The wards owe their freedom to a burgeoning official investigation into the decades-long abuse of the Clark County Family Court adult guardianship program by Clark County Commissioner Jon Norheim, over seen by Judge Charles Hoskins. But as Richard Black point out, there is still much work to be done: To Victim [- more...]

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