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'Life With Pop"
From bestselling author and clinical psychologist Janis Abrahms Spring comes a refreshingly honest and tender portrait of a devoted daughter caring for her father through his final years of life After...
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Psychological Vulnerability in Older Adults Increases Risk for Financial...
Older adults with extreme depression symptoms and low social status fulfillment are at greater risk for financial exploitation, according to new data. Researchers analyzed data from a representative US...
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Shady Practices in Conservatorship
Bryan Rosen's recent letter to the "Independent" detailing Judge Stern's startling ignoring of a proper "Power of Attorney," thereby forcing the use of psychotropic drugs on a person trapped in the...
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Elder Care Homes Ensnared By Foreclosure Crisis In California
This article was made possible with support from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.Richard Miller, 77 Richard Miller had been living in his second-floor San Francisco apartment for 23 years when,...
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Former CFO, lawyer plead in St. Louis pre-arranged funeral fraud case
ST. LOUIS • Two more defendants involved in what prosecutors have called a “Ponzi-like” pre-arranged funeral scam that could cost $600 million pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal charges. The former...
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D.C. lawyer gets harsher penalty for lying in discipline hearings
A lawyer who convinced a District of Columbia bar discipline hearing committee that she was truthful about events from several years earlier had less credibility in a subsequent hearing by the Board...
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All Types of Elder Abuse Hike Hospitalization Risk
Maltreatment of older adults -- including financial exploitation and psychological abuse -- independently raised their likelihood of ending up in the hospital, a population-based study showed....
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State bar judge recommends 2-year suspension for lawyer
OAKLAND, Calif. — A state Bar Court judge has recommended that an attorney who represented former Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV be suspended from practicing law for two years for...
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Britney Spears has conservatorship hearing
Britney Spears has reportedly arrived to court and is meeting with a judge for a review of her father's sole conservatorship of her estate. The singer has remained under a conservatorship order since...
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The Ruling That Could Change Everything for Disabled People With...
When Judge Kristen Booth Glen walked into her Manhattan Surrogate's courtroom one day in 2007, she had no idea she was about to challenge the nation's top banks on behalf of tens of thousands of...
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New Virginia Law Aims To Help Elderly Victims
Every year there are more than 1,000 cases of financial exploitation of adults in the State of Virginia. The sad reality is elderly individuals are at a great risk of being taken advantage of by...
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8th Circuit Court of appeals threatens Minneapolis lawyer with sanctions
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals took the unusual step on Monday of threatening to impose its own sanctions on a Minneapolis foreclosure attorney for continuing to file appeals, using legal...
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Five Legal Documents Same-Sex Couples Need in Texas
A recent story of a North Texas man that took social media by storm has unique legal issues for same-sex couples across Texas. Lon Watts says he was forced to move from his home of 12 years, and was...
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TN: Family Says Conservatorship Bilked $300K From Mother's Estate; The...
John E. Clemmons' law license was suspended a few months ago after he was accused of writing himself more than $50,000 in unauthorized fees from the bank account of a disabled client. Now, another...
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Couple given probation for bilking elderly woman
VALPARAISO | Porter County Superior Court Judge Mary Harper accepted a plea agreement Wednesday for a Michigan City couple who pleaded guilty to stealing more than $100,000 from an elderly, blind...
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Ex-banker allegedly swindled $2m from clients
WOBURN — A former personal banker on Tuesday pleaded not guilty in Middlesex Superior Court to charges that she swindled more than $2 million from her relatives and elderly customers at the Bank of...
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CA Elder Affairs Committee Holds Hearing Regarding Anti-Psychotic Drugs In...
The state Legislature’s Elder Affair’s Committee holds a hearing Tuesday to discuss the use of anti-psychotic drugs in nursing homes. It is at 10:30 a.m. in Room B-2 at the State House. “An Act...
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CA: Advocates Seek Oversight at Developmental Centers
Citing a stack of reports criticizing state officials for not properly overseeing facilities that care for people with developmental disabilities, advocates called on Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday to...
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Man accused of stealing from elderly couple
A 51-year-old man today appeared in court facing theft and senior abuse charges. Xavier Trace Douglas of My Lord’s Bay, Hamilton parish was charged with stealing a credit balance to the value of...
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Taking Care of Loved Ones: Guardianship and Conservatorship in Kentucky
Legal guardianship is designed to protect a legally disabled adult who can no longer meet his/her personal needs. The decision to pursue guardianship of an individual is never an easy decision. Often,...
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