Florida: Sarasota Herald-Tribune’s ongoing coverage of guardianship abuse
Beverly and Lawrence Newman pose in front of a quilt made by Susan Kohnstam that is made up of the different yellow stars Jewish people were forced to wear during the Holocaust. The little boy in the center in Susan's husband, Pieter, who survived the Holocaust and had Anne Frank as a babysitter. The Newmans run a small nonprofit named in honor of Beverly's father, The Al Katz Center for Holocaust Survivors & Jewish Learning Inc. The central mission is helping elders and their families fight guardianship proceedings. (September 24, 2014) (Herald-Tribune staff photo by Rachel S. O'Hara)
An excellent summation of guardianship abuse as reported by Barabara Peters Smith of Sarasota’s Herald-Tribune newspaper:
I had no rights
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 06, 2014
BARBARA PETERS SMITH
At the age of 99, Willie Berchau was taken from his home and put in a locked facility.
Railing against injustice, one case at a time
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 06, 2014
BARBARA PETERS SMITH
Guardian put ex-husband in “rat’s nest,” she says
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 07, 2014
BARBARA PETERS SMITH
Elder Abuse Forum at the Gulf Gate Library / Feb. 26, 2015
MONDAY, MARCH 16, 2015
BARBARA PETERS SMITH
A civil disagreement
FOUR DECADES OF TRUST AND FRIENDSHIP WIND UP IN GUARDIANSHIP COURT
MONDAY, APRIL 20, 2015
BARBARA PETERS SMITH
Guardianship: Family rift, public fix
TERMINAL ILLNESS AND FAMILY FEUD LEAD TO LOSS OF SARASOTA WOMAN’S RIGHTS
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2015
BARBARA PETERS SMITH
