comments from various articles:
(my comment)
It makes you wonder; how many poor people have all these guardianship companies, good-deed-doers, and lawyers so anxious to become their legal guardians?
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Wayne Collier 1 hour ago
Lawyers, acting as legal guardians, have found old people to be a real "honey pot" to raid if they have any money!!! Also, it looks like judges at the local level are in on the deal.
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Sam Sugar
7 hours ago
As Founder of AAAPG, I am inundated on a daily basis with calls from around the country from desperate family members begging for a way to save their loved ones from the abyss of for-profit guardianship. The system of for-profit guardianship is so lucrative, so well-connected, so unassailable and so resistant to change that escape is essentially impossible and the most common way guardianships and is with death.
We are committed to change this egregious system.
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ENID HINKES
Being an attorney and having experience with the courts, my advice is to stay away from them if you can. Judges are nothing more than attorneys with political connections. Some are thoughtful, hardworking and honest, and others can be crooked, lazy and indifferent. You never know what you will get, and even the good ones sometimes get it wrong. The abuses listed in the article could be from judges too chummy with the guardians and lawyers they appoint, or too lazy to review the billings.
If you are put in a situation where you have to use the courts or a lawyer, keep on top of things. Ask how much fees are, and don't take "it will be reasonable" for an answer, as that is a sure indication that it won't be.
Get along with siblings, visit your elderly parents, and make your divorces as amicable as possible. Discuss finances with your parents while they still know what they are doing and don't discuss their money with others, especially lawyers.
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