Thursday, October 30, 2008

Public Guardian in Control

The two sons and wife of prominent local businessman Larry Shehadey have agreed to let Fresno County's Public Guardian be his permanent conservator, a decision that "avoids a potentially ugly court battle" over his care.

101 year old Shehadey built Producers Dairy into one of Fresno's most successful businesses. Family members have said he suffers from dementia.

Last year, the Public Guardian began an investigation of June Lattanzio, who is Shehadey's wife. The county agency alleged that Lattanzio isolated Shehadey from friends and family and even threatened to move him out of the country. The Public Guardian sought successfully to become his temporary conservator. He was moved out of the home he shared with Lattanzio, and the agency took responsibility for his daily care.

Not long afterward, Lattanzio and Shehadey's two sons filed competing court briefs seeking to gain control of Shehadey's life by becoming his permanent conservator.

A court trial on the matter was set for earlier this month, but papers filed in Fresno County Superior Court showed the matter was resolved before the trial started.

Full Article and Source:
Shehadey conservatorship resolved

More on Fresno County Public Guardian:

Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation is the organization that helped Janet Rivera's family find legal counsel after the Fresno County Public Guardian's office refused to give her food and water. Rivera went about eleven days off life support and it wasn't until the family asked CBS47 for help and they began an investigation, that the county put back her feeding tube.
Source:
Schiavo Foundation: “It’s a Wake-up Call”

Rivera's husband was recently replaced as her public guardian, after he experienced medical problems. The appointed Fresno County Public Guardian decided that because she is unlikely to recover, Rivera's fluids and food would be removed. This decision was against the wishes of the Rivera family and Janet's husband.
Source:
California Public Guardian Attempts to Dehydrate Woman to Death over Wishes of Family

After a hearing in the Fresno County Superior Court, the family of patient Janet Rivera was reinstated as her conservator. The Court ruled that Ms. Rivera's cousin temporarily replaces the public guardian who made the decision to deprive Ms. Rivera of food and water.
Source:
Court protects California woman from Schiavo-like death by dehydration...

See also:
Saved from Government Sanctioned Starvation

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh my, this family has jumped from the fire into the frying pan.

And the Public Guardian will be the one controlling the flames.

We'll be reading more about this case as the family catches on that things are going from bad to worse.

Anonymous said...

This is so sad Betty and it could happen, just that fast.

Strangers controlling life and death situaitons while the family has no say in the matter, sounds like a communustic 3rd world country to me.

People / wards turned into products for personal gain + guardians et al + guardianship racket = the new GDP Gross Domestic Product = going backwards in time to the caveman days.

Anonymous said...

This is a costly decision for the family. What a shame they didn't read this informative blog before making the bad decision.

Anonymous said...

For the family that decided to avoid the "potentially ugly court battle" - - - watch out.

Anonymous said...

You can bet this family's lawyer sold them out.

Anonymous said...

Good point Betty. I smell a truckload of rats.

You bet this family's lawyer told them to co-operate probably to save time and money.

My gut feeling is this family lawyer received a nice bonus, gift, percentage of the estate, call it whatever you want, but the financial reward, payback, kickback for getting the family to roll over, did the trick.

It's always about the $$$$$ and it makes me sick.

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