New Mexico

New Mexico: Who’s guarding the guardians? Part 1 of 5

November 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

Editor’s note: Investigative journalist Diane Dimond, whose weekly syndicated column on crime and justice appears in the Journal, is preparing a book on the nation’s elder guardianship system. It’s a system designed to protect the elderly from the unscrupulous. But as Dimond discovered, it can be dominated by a core group of court-appointed, for-profit professionals who are accused of isolating family members and draining the elders’ estates. New Mexico is no exception. This is the [- more...]

New Mexico: Elder guardianship aims to bilk more than help

February 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

This is the latest column from nationally-syndicated columnist Diane Dimond, who was raised in New Mexico, and is shocked to find out what her state has done that amounts to court-ordered predation upon New Mexico’s elderly, sick, and infirm.  From Saturday February 27, 2016, Albuquerque Journal: I wrote about the plight of 94-year-old Betty Winstanley, who resides at the Masonic Village retirement home in Elizabethtown, Pa. She doesn’t want to live there anymore. Now that her husband [- more...]

New Mexico: Marcia Southwick reviews Guardianship laws from Santa Fe

July 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

Boomers Against Elder Abuse – a FB community Notes from Marcia Southwick’s talk on Sunday July 19, 2015 at the Journey Santa Fe Lecture Series, and KSFR Radio. GUARDIANSHIP/CONSERVATORSHIP: A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD: What is guardianship/conservatorship? Different states use these two different terms in different ways, but I will refer to all of it as guardianship to simplify. Guardianship is a legal process by which a person is deemed incapacitated and some if not all of their [- more...]
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