A Nashville woman who fought for nearly two years to get out from under a court-ordered conservatorship was set free Thursday.Ginger Franklin had a conservator, or guardian, appointed to handle her affairs after she tumbled down the stairs at her house in 2008 and suffered a brain injury. After she recovered, she tried to regain control of her life but found it to be a long and draining ordeal involving multiple court hearings.
On Thursday, Nashville Probate Judge Randy Kennedy dissolved the conservatorship after reading a new doctor's report that says Franklin had fully recovered.
“It’s hard to take it all in,” Franklin said. “I’m a free woman. I can drive. I can work. I can get married. I can vote.”
They are things that most Americans take for granted, but they are things that people under a conservatorship are not allowed to do for themselves.
Franklin said she hopes to get her job back and start her life over.
"I'm going to celebrate by celebrating my life every day," Franklin said.
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Woman Free From Conservatorship
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10 comments:
Ginger
Congratulations! on your victory in court.
God Bless you in all you do.
Ginger said she would start all over. Sure, but not without her money. Her keeper, who engaged in breach of fiduciary duty, must be made to return her money.
I hope there is recourse for Ginger to get a detailed accounting from day one in addition to getting back all of her property. Ginger is free but the search for truth has just begun.
WOW!!!
Ginger, you are so blessed. Congratulations!
This is wonderful news and so very encouraging.
Let this be the beginning of good news from Tennessee.
Congratulations, Ginger. You are one in a club of a very few who have regained their capacity.
Hooray for you and for all those who supported you.
NASGA's got to be partying!
The dark cloud has lifted for you and we are all so very glad!
Congradulations
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