A state Senate panel was urged to approve a power-of-attorney measure aimed at protecting seniors from abuses by caregivers and, in some cases, their own children.
SB314, reviewed by the Senate Judiciary Committee, would erase limited power-of-attorney laws and replace them with a much broader act proposed by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.
Proponents of SB314 included Lora Myles of the RSVP CARE Law Program, which assists seniors: "the existing Nevada laws make it tough on seniors in dealing with banks or with authorities when seniors become victims of exploitation."
Myles described a case in which a woman confessed to using a power of attorney “to rip her mother off for a very large sum of money” but police and a district attorney wouldn’t prosecute the case, saying they lacked the authority under existing state law.
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Bill focuses on power-of-attorney abuse against seniors
SB314, reviewed by the Senate Judiciary Committee, would erase limited power-of-attorney laws and replace them with a much broader act proposed by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.
Proponents of SB314 included Lora Myles of the RSVP CARE Law Program, which assists seniors: "the existing Nevada laws make it tough on seniors in dealing with banks or with authorities when seniors become victims of exploitation."
Myles described a case in which a woman confessed to using a power of attorney “to rip her mother off for a very large sum of money” but police and a district attorney wouldn’t prosecute the case, saying they lacked the authority under existing state law.
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Bill focuses on power-of-attorney abuse against seniors
5 comments:
PoA abuse should receive strict punishment because it involves an abuse of trust.
However, the result of PoA abuse should not be guardianship.
Perhaps people should appoint a PoA and then give several backups (in order of preference) so if PoA #1 abuses, then the PoA goes to the next person on the list....
The existing laws make it more than tough on seniors when dealing with banks and/or authorities when they are victimized. The existing laws lead them from the fire to the frying pan!
Abusing a PoA is simply theft and should be dealt with swiftly in criminal court.
I am not sure that PoA laws need beefing up.
Anyone who misuses and abuses their positions of trust, whether in the position of POA or guardian, whether a family member or a lawyer or a guardian for profit must be charged and prosuecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
NO MERCY
After taking my father into her house during the last 9 months of his life, my sister drained accounts containing over 300 thousand set aside for all 3 of his children after his death.
To explain why she won't see or talk to my brother and I, she is telling everyone we raped her when we were children. I've read that false accusations against victimized relatives and others are typically part of the pattern.
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