Decades LLC – supposedly solely-owned by social worker Nancy Oriola

Peter Grotte-Higley, a client of Ayudando Guardians (Olivier Uyttebrouck/Journal). Mr Grotte-Higley is a survivor of the original Holocaust, but failed to escape the clutches of New Mexico's predatory judges and their appointees, who - based upon a Petition filed by Hannah Arlette and the Jewish Federation of New Mexico - swept him up into guardianship in February 2016.

New Mexico: Guardian hearing delayed after reporters try to attend

October 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

By Olivier Uyttebrouck and Colleen Heild / Journal Staff Writers From the Albuquerque Journal An Albuquerque judge postponed a hearing Monday for a former client of Ayudando Guardians after two Journal reporters tried to attend his guardianship hearing at the client’s invitation. In a related development, the former Ayudando client, Peter Grotte-Higley, said he moved on Friday to a new senior living facility near the University of New Mexico that he called “1,000 percent better” than his [- more...]
New Mexico 2nd Judicial District Judge Alan Malott, currently presiding over a civil tort case brought by the surviving sole child of former Ward Annette Rosenstiel against Decades Inc and CEO Nancy Oriola for abuses that allegedly occurred during Mrs Rosenstiel's 10-year long forced guardianship, from which she never escaped.

New Mexico: Plaintiff in guardianship case wants the judge to step aside

May 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

By Colleen Heild / Journal Investigative Reporter Monday, May 22nd, 2017 at 12:05am The daughter of a deceased Albuquerque author suing a commercial guardian and conservator firm is questioning the impartiality of the judge in the case, citing in part his appearance in April with representatives of the guardianship industry at an Albuquerque Lawyers Club panel discussion. Attorneys for Leonie Rosenstiel are asking District Judge Alan Malott to recuse himself from presiding over her lawsuit [- more...]
New Mexico District Civil Court Judge Alan Malott

New Mexico: Albuquerque Journal, state’s largest newspaper, joins lawsuit to end sequestration of guardian mismanagement case

March 31, 2017 // 0 Comments

Annette Rosenstiel lived to be 101 years old. But what happened to her and her assets during the nine years before her death in 2012 is mired in court-ordered secrecy that is opposed by her only child. Annette Rosenstiel, an author who was married to New York financial heavyweight Raymond S. Rosenstiel, had been the ward of a for-profit guardian/conservator, Decades LLC of Albuquerque, since about 2003. After her death, Annette’s daughter and personal representative, Leonie Rosenstiel, filed [- more...]
District Judge Beatrice Brickhouse granted a petition to appoint professional outsiders to handle Blair Darnell’s affairs. (Morgan Petroski/Albuquerque Journal)

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...]

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