More On The Legalized Pillaging Of Assets From Senior Citizens: The Court-Appointed Guardianship Racket

From a recent column in The Huffington Post:

• It’s legal, but is it right?
  
  Imagine you’ve worked hard all of your life and suddenly you are deemed incapacitated and are stripped of your dignity and basic individual rights. You have been abducted from your home, isolated from your family, and “placed” somewhere to be medicated while your assets are being pillaged. The authorities that should be protecting you are the ones committing these heinous acts. It sounds like Nazi Germany, but this is happening in the United States today.
  
  The victims are seniors. The partners in crime are financial predators and agents of the Elder Guardianship system — attorneys, professional guardians, medical experts, and others who are paid out of the senior’s assets.
  
  There are some good judges but many are overworked and some are actively aiding the exploitation. Anyone can file to deem you incapacitated. The entire process from filing an incapacity petition to plenary guardianship where all rights are removed can happen within days. Yet, once you’re caught in the web, it’s almost impossible to break free... AND you are forced to pay your abusers in the process.

For more, see Is Elder Guardianship A New Form Of Human Trafficking?

Go here for earlier posts on the guardianship racket.