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Worse Than Paying Taxes? Paying Someone Else's---And IRS Can Make You Do It
Can the IRS collect someone else’s taxes from you? In some cases, yes, where you end up with assets or money from that person. You may have a right to the assets or money, but the IRS trumps you. The...
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Unclean Hands: Suing for Defamation
Rebecca Schultz must have really touched a nerve when she removed her wealthy father from Jared E. Shafer's "guardianship" back in September 2010. In circumstances when an older wealthy married couple...
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DPS sergeant fired for 'dishonety'
Aug 15, 2013 5:09 p.m. A Department of Public Safety Sergeant has been fired after more than 15 years on the job. DPS spokesman Bart Graves says Sgt. Terry Lincoln has been fired for dishonesty....
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!
If you are in guardianship/conservatorship litigation, or about to enter litigation, the first thing to do is read and devour the guardianship/conservatorship laws of your state. You may think it's...
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Guardianship cases can turn into nightmares for wards and their families
Rita Denmark, 82, walking on the beach in New Smyrna Beach, Fla., in 2009. For the past five years, Rita, a lifelong Pennsylvanian, has been a ward of a Florida guardian. (Photo courtesy of Holly...
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Medication May Cause Elderly to Become Frail
The cocktail of drugs commonly prescribed to older people could be hastening their ageing, according to experts who say despite the risks of over-medication the problem is getting worse. An analysis of...
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Nursing Home Reality Blog
A visitor to this blog shared the following comment a few days ago. I think her comment speaks directly to the issue of corporate greed and that leads to both the neglect of nursing home residents as...
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Governor should veto bill changing review of judges
It is true that dissatisfied defendants and prosecutors often complain about the judges who presided over their cases. “Favors the district attorneys,” one will say. “A liberal who always gives a...
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Schaumburg police seek help finding missing senior
The Schaumburg Police Department is seeking the public's help with finding a missing senior who might be in danger. Agripina Resendiz, 76, who is under the guardianship of the Illinois Office of the...
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Linda Kincaid Reports: Advocates Urge CA Governor Brown to Sign AB937
AB937 states that a conservatee has the right to have visitors, to make and receive phone calls, and to receive personal mail. Although these basics rights are already affirmed in California statute,...
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Tonight on T.S. Radio: Targeting Whistleblowers - Corrupt Courts in Action
5:00 pm PST … 6:00 pm MST … 7:00 pm CST … 8:00 pm EST Join us this evening as Elliot Bernstein and Pat Hanley talk about the massive corruption in our courts and how it extends all the way down to...
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Woman Jailed On Charges She Abused An Elderly Female Relative
LEVITTOWN, Pennsylvania — An eastern Pennsylvania woman has been jailed on charges she abused an elderly female relative by poking the woman in the eyes and squeezing the woman so hard around the rib...
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Judge Who Threatened Lawyers Reprimanded By Judicial Conduct Commission
There are a lot of prickly judges in the world. You can’t really blame someone who reached the pinnacle of their professional career for being insufferable to everyone else. Actually, you can blame...
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Study Shows People in “Vegetative” State Were Incorrectly Diagnosed
There is more encouraging news coming out of Canada regarding the very unscientific persistent vegetative state (PVS) diagnosis. Once again there has been a study regarding three people who were...
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The 5 Most Controversial Decisions Alzheimer's Caregivers Will Ever Face
1. Should the Person Stop Driving? Late one evening, I was deeply immersed in editing the photographs I'd taken at the Cincinnati Zoo that day when I was startled by the phone ringing. I thought it was...
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Pa. CJD suspends indicted administrative Phila. Traffic Court judge without pay
Court of Judicial Discipline Judge Bernard L. McGinley One of the jurists caught up in the ticket-fixing scandal at the now defunct Philadelphia Traffic Court has been suspended without pay....
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Former assisted living center director sentenced in financial exploitation
Elaine Marie ElcyzynJAY – The former director of a Grand Lake assisted living center accused of using a patient’s debit card at several casinos received a 15-year suspended sentence and order to pay...
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Every grown-up should get chance to make own decisions
Aging baby boomers, look out, because the case I am going to talk about might have an impact on your life one day, too. This is a case about freedom, personal decisions and whether someone who is...
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Need a guardian? If you don't pick one, court will for you
Having someone you trust to make decisions for you when you can't is a good idea, if you don't want a stranger doing it, that is. In Illinois, if you are "not decisional" as the lawyers say, and you...
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Brown signs bill to protect rights of conservatees
SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) -- Gov. Brown signed a bill into law Monday protecting the rights of people under a conservatorship. That's when a judge appoints someone to handle the affairs of a...
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