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In a recent guardianship case (and the
Florida guardianship attorneys here at Elder Law Associates do MANY guardianship cases), I was amazed at the lengths to which family members will go for financial gain at their loved one's expense.
In this case, a perfectly competent individual who was experiencing above average stress and aggravation, and was thus displaying his anger, was forced to endure a declaration of incapacity against him at enormous expense until I was successful in having the guardianship terminated.
The guardianship proceedings were brought by his only daughter, who failed to disclose the existence of large sums of her father's money and took wrongful control of that money. Had my client engaged me as his Florida guardianship attorney at an earlier stage, he may have been spared more than a year of humiliation and continuing exorbitant expense.
Moral of the story: Hire a
Florida guardianship attorney who is very experienced in contested guardianships if anyone questions your capacity.
-- Ellen S. Morris, Esq.
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