The TBA Public Education Committee has updated The Legal Handbook for Tennessee Seniors for 2014. The updated Handbook contains practical information on a wide range of topics, including issues such as applying for Social Security benefits, long-term care considerations and estate planning, as well as completely new sections addressing online security and new health care legislation.
An updated list of resources relevant for Tennessee Seniors is also included. Copies are available for download or by printed form.
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2014 Legal Handbook for Tennessee Seniors
Anything there to protect elders and disabled from unlawful and abusive guardianships?
ReplyDeleteNO!
Great idea to make it downloadable.
ReplyDeleteThe Virginia Guardianship Association has a very well written, detailed handbook on guardianship/conservatorship.
It is not currently available, and becomes available only sporadically.
No doubt the print copies and postage became too expensive.
If the VGA were really interested in its purported public purposes, instead of just becoming a lobbying arm for dysfunctional out of control public guardianship programs like Jewish Family Service of Virginia, it would make this handbook available, free of charge, on its newly redesigned website.
Not holding my breath ....
Thanks Thelma that was my first thought you answered my question while saving me time that was needed to read the incomplete manual. Figures.
ReplyDeleteI bet not, Thelma. Wish there was.
ReplyDeleteTHIS ABUSE NEED TO STOP NOW! We all need to contact the President because something needs to be put in place to protect guardians. What do you do when the Judge and attorney's are all working together and not for the client. I have sat in many court rooms and noticed that the cases that don't have any money, the court don't care what happens and the Guardian ad litem sometimes don't even show up. But if its a lot of money involved, the client gets drained of their money and taken away from their family. My situation is this, We are in the Chicago, Illinois probate court system and I am the guardian of a 20 year old disabled person. She will be 21 in a few weeks. My niece has a 12 million dollar estate. We have asked that the money be put into a trust, and now a guardianship and the bank Northern trust, my attorney, and the guardian ad litem said No! The home we live in is not handicap assessable and each time we ask for a new home, the guardian ad litem ask us to buy his friend home priced a almost a million dollars and its only worth a little over $200,00 I know because Im a Realtor and the home is not accessible. Each year, we ask the guardian ad litem for a home and tell him we don't want that home and he says, then your not getting a home and I going to take your guardianship away. Then he make false complaints so we have to fight for a whole year proving him wrong. We have a attorney and he just laugh and say its all about the money. Attorneys can lie just to keep going to court to make money and the judge will not listen to me and will not even allow me to talk in court. They are all friend. We talked to the FBI and they said, nothing will be done unless their are hundreds of other complaints about the same person. There should be a system in place that it should be a group or organization that do not consist of attorneys or judges and that group should take complains from guardians and if they keep getting the same complaint about the same person, the should be investigated or disciplined. If we ask for a stove, we will have to pay over $10,000 in attorney fees just to request a stove. Something need to be done! The guardian ad litem requested that the case manager come from the same home health care company. I said that would be a conflict of interest and they did it anyway. We complained for years that the caregivers were stealing out the home and we have a police conviction to prove it. We complained that the caregivers was coming to work late and just sit in the staff bedroom and talk on the phone for their whole shift and one caregiver was always smoking drugs in the home. The case manager would not do anything and was getting paid every month for not doing anything. I fired the case manager then the guardian ad litem teamed with the case manager to try to take away my guardianship. I wanted a government company to come in to do case management and the guardian ad litem said no he want to pick the case manager which I feel if I allow him to do that, he will have that person make false claims. We need help. Please email me at Rochelle.williams@comcast.net
ReplyDeleteFact or Fiction?
ReplyDeletePages 213-216.
Google Judge Randy Kennedy - you be the judge.