A Greenwich judge has freed a Michigan woman who has been caught in a Connecticut probate court dispute for more than a year.
Marilyn Plank, a Michigan woman brought to Connecticut by relatives under questionable circumstances in 2007, can now return to her home state of Michigan.
Probate Judge David Hopper granted Plank's wish to return to Michigan after probate court administrator Paul Knierim began investigating the case. Knierim stepped in after learning about the case in reporter Rick Green's , Another probate court kidnap case in Connecticut.
Critics say the case is another example of the need to reform and restructure state probate courts.
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Greenwich probate court frees Michigan woman
See also:
Probate Investigation
Probate-Sanctioned Kidnapping
Marilyn Plank, a Michigan woman brought to Connecticut by relatives under questionable circumstances in 2007, can now return to her home state of Michigan.
Probate Judge David Hopper granted Plank's wish to return to Michigan after probate court administrator Paul Knierim began investigating the case. Knierim stepped in after learning about the case in reporter Rick Green's , Another probate court kidnap case in Connecticut.
Critics say the case is another example of the need to reform and restructure state probate courts.
Source:
Greenwich probate court frees Michigan woman
See also:
Probate Investigation
Probate-Sanctioned Kidnapping
Thank you, Rick Green, for your brave reporting and courage to stand up to the flawed probate system.
ReplyDeleteRick Green is an excellent reporter and an honorable advocate!
The sick CT probate system is working for the professionals and those who work with them - not for the victims at all.
ReplyDeleteI hope the children got the message about what their fighting cost them and Mrs. Plank in time, anguish and money. How much was milked out in fees in the year it took to free her? And how much more will they be fighting over?
The family member who did the grannynap should be severely sanctioned financially.
If there is no domicile in the state, jurisdiction should be dealt with as a preliminary matter before a proceeding can be commenced.
If this requires a change in the court rules, and the administrators won't do the right thing, it's time for the legislators to step in and do it for them!
Mrs. Plank and other escapees of "grannynapping" have to thank Rick Green for his brave and thorough work on this appalling issue of "greed and profit" - milking the assets of the unfortunate elderly for unjust enrichment.
Thank you Rick Green.
ReplyDeleteAppplause & Standing Ovation!
There is NO doubt in my mind that you are the reason Ms. Plank is finally being released from the corruption in CT, going home to the great state of MICHIGAN!
Your light is shining a bright light on the darkside the dark, dirty secrets of the probate racket and the probate mobsters lost another case, another slave, another ward, to the probate racket.
You truly are a shining light.
Thank you for releasing the truth which will benefit society not only in corrupt CT, but in the other 49 states.
The laws in CT concerning conservatorship HAVE been changed as of October 2007-, problem is, judges don't follow the law! If they did, Marily Plank would never have been allowed to be conserved in CT!
ReplyDeleteAha, follow the laws on the books? Hey, I'm wearing the robe; I am the almighty judge and I can do whatever I want.
ReplyDeleteHowever, following the law, now, that is a refreshing thought; 99.99% of the problem in all 50 states.
WHO? Will monitor HOW the cases begin, proceed and conclude?
ANSWER(?): We the People? If not us, then who?