PRESS RELEASE
For immediate release
March 15, 2010
For more information contact:
Annie McKenna
NASGA Media Liaison
info@StopGuardianAbuse.org
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NASGA's Open Letter to Congress and the White House
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NASGA's "indictment" of the unlawful and abusive guardianship / conservatorship system (as presently practiced in state courts across the country), has been mailed to select members of the Senate, House, White House and other VIP’s, and is now available online at www.AnOpenLetterToCongress.info.
The original “protect” and “conserve” intent of guardianship/conservatorship law is no longer being complied with. Wards' estates, instead of being conserved, are being plundered in the guise of legal-fee billings for "services" not necessarily legal in nature, or simply through obscene overbilling. More and more fiduciaries, in our present economy, are engaging in stealing from their wards.
The shocker in NASGA’s "indictment" is the fact that after estate assets are fully dissipated, every tax-paying American citizen becomes obligated to pick up the Medicaid tab for the remainder of the life of vulnerable wards, pauperized by guardianship proceedings. The American taxpayer is supposed to be protected under guardianship law, the purpose of which is to prevent a vulnerable individual from becoming a "public charge," but the irony of growing misuse/misapplication of the law makes the American taxpayer an unwary and unwitting fellow victim.
NASGA is hopeful that after many years of discussion among professional organizations - Congressional Committees, and even the federal General Accounting Office - about guardianship problems, the time has come when something meaningful will be done to protect vulnerable individuals from unlawful state-court proceedings and resultant abuse.
See:
AnOpenLetterToCongress.info
An "indictment," indeed!
ReplyDeleteThis is like cancer: until it taps you on the shoulder you don't know - or don't want to know - anything about it.
But folks, NASGA was formed to fight this new epidemic of state-court judges forgetting their oaths and running amok.
Good going NASGA, now, those who know and knew about the court terrorists cannot deny what they knew, when they knew and what if anything they did about it.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it about time for the Washington DC crowd to open their eyes, step up and forget about who their special interest groups are who stuff their campaign war chests with $$$$ to act in their best interests?
Why is it that We the People do not have lobbysists or special interest groups to compete against those lobbyists who exist for one reason to bribe the lawmakers to get them to act in their best interest?
How is it that We the People get stuck with the bills, we pay the legislators' salaries, health care benefits and fund their retirement, while they continue to bow to and bend over for those who come with connections and promises of campaign cash and fringe benefits that we have seen repeatedly in the news?
Let them be on notice that NASGA is not only here, but we're not going away.
ReplyDeleteNOW is the time for reform!
Great job!
ReplyDeleteThank goodness for NASGA! It is only through joining together with a common purpose and goal that real change gets accomplished. I am glad NASGA exists and I am also proud to be a member.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is clear to me....lawyers make the law and they make it for their benefit. We, the public, have no say.
ReplyDeleteGood job, NASGA.
ReplyDeleteNow, let's see what Congress and the White House have to say about it!
This could happen to anybody. It's beyond time for Washington, D.C. to open their eyes and do what is right!!
ReplyDeleteA good letter. Has there been a response from anyone???
ReplyDeleteWe must keep up the heat and publish as much of the abuses and financial exploitations being inflicted upon the elderly in this country. It is a disgrace, because the judiciary has no checks and balances and inflicts their own tyranny under "Color of Law".