Consider scenario - Elderly person, no relaitves, sick in the hospital, or in an Assisted Living Centre.
Along comes Joe/Jane Blogg, who having hunted for such a person, fills out a few forms, goes before a Judge bogged down with caseloads,with an emergency motion, then emerges from the Court a fully licenced Conservator (?) with the ABSOLUTE power over that vulnerable elderly person - the power over his/her bank accounts, Estate etc.
It's irrespective whether the vulnerable person KNOWS this person authorised by the Court.
That Judge has effectively allowed this person to spend that vulnerable persons' money, and have COMPLETE CONTROL over a complete strangers' life during what is a very vulnerable time.. and as we all KNOW, there are some "wrong 'uns" out there people.
What re-dress do the innocent have should a worst case scenario occur, and all the Estate is decimated by an unscrupuless individual out for a quick, easy buck?
2007-02-20
21:42:33
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