Imagine yourself reaching the age of 93, you are still healthy and you have wealth, only to become a prisoner of the legal system in your own home. It is a scenario being played out in hundreds if not thousands of Florida homes.
“My mom has the money. Did have the money. She pays nine hundred dollars, a hundred dollars an hour to see her children” says one of three siblings.
Private Guardians are for profit businesses. No one regulates them. Nancy Detert wants to change that.
“They’re in charge of your money, your assets, your health care, your family. So basically, they can take you prisoner and we don’t even have a complaint department” says the Republican Senator.
After the testimony, the sons were denied an Easter visit to their now 93 year old mother. The email claims the sons conduct is brazen and harmful. We asked Detert what the Franks can do.
Q:”What does Mr. Franks do to see his mother without having to pay?”
A:”It’s impossible”
One of the problems is that no independent authority is checking what is true or not true.
Legislation on the move here at the Capitol would regulate all guardians…public and private. And it would set up a way for people to file complaints so people like Doug Franks don’t have to publish pamphlets about their case.
Franks and others who testified say the proposed law is a step in the right direction, but just a small step.
No professional private guardians testified against the legislative changes last week. The number of private guardians has gone from 23 in 2003 to 450 in 2015.
Full Article & Source:
Guardians Gone Bad?
See Also:
Florida Bill, SB1226, Seeks to Stop "Cockroaches" From Preying on the Elderly
Escambia Senior Out $1 Million; Bill Seeks To Stop Predatory ‘Cockroaches’
NASGA: Ernestine Franks, Florida Victim
Doug Franks' Easter visit with his Mother was cancelled after he testified at the FL legislature regarding guardianship abuse.
ReplyDeleteRetaliation?
Retaliation for sure. And what's even worse is the guardian will get by with it because Doug Franks would have to take it to court to change it and that costs him and his Mom more money......
ReplyDeleteSounds like retaliation to me!!! This is not what guardianship is suppose to do! To cancel Ernestine's Easter visit with her son's is NOT IN HER BEST INTEREST!
ReplyDeleteThink this can't or won't happen to you or your loved ones?
ReplyDeleteRemember Probate court is not a court of 'law'.
Probate court: business deals conducted in a courtroom.
Protect yourselves we're all walking $ signs people churned into products to feed the greedy probate machine. Good luck to Doug and your brothers.
Ernestine wanted to see her sons on Easter. And the guardian punished her. That's wrong and the guardian should be removed for doing it!
ReplyDeleteProud of you Doug!
ReplyDeleteAnother example of how guardianships are not at all about care and protection but about fleecing the elderly of their money. There is no excuse for not allowing visits from children, especially on important holidays. It is unlikely that all of the children cause problems. This kind of separation from loved ones uneccessarily stresses the elderly, many of whom are afraid of dying alone.
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