Category: California Financial Elder Abuse Attorney

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Caregivers And Others Prey On Lonely Widows and Widowers Isolation Presents the Biggest Risk of Abuse Support Groups, Family, and Friends Can Protect Seniors Nearly 29% of America’s senior population of 46 million people live alone. That’s over 13 million of us.  Seventy percent of that number, over […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Caregivers and Financial Elder Abuse Caregiver Accused of Stealing $100,000 From Elderly Patient Preventing Caregiver Account Access In-home caregivers have access to a senior’s valuables, credit cards, bank accounts and important papers unless you keep them out of reach. They also have access to a senior’s accounts via […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Financial Elder Abuse Strikes Seniors Anywhere Care Facility Residents Vulnerable To Exploitation Preventing Abuse The risks of financial elder abuse by in-home caregivers is high. But seniors who live in assisted care facilities or nursing homes are vulnerable to financial elder abuse too. Staff members at these facilities […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Caregivers Prey On Lonely Widows and Widowers Protect Your Children’s Inheritance in the Family Home Consider Life Estates Sadly, there’s a repeating pattern of caregivers getting their hands on a senior’s home after a spouse of many years passes away. Isolated seniors are particularly vulnerable to financial exploitation […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Ponzi Schemes Increasingly Target Older Investors One Red Flag: Promises of Guaranteed High Returns In a Ponzi scheme, fraudsters use money they collect from new investors to pay existing investors. What appears to be a return on your investment is actually money from another investor who has been […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Gold Scams Target Older Investors Financial Elder Abuse And Commodity Futures Trading Commission Whistleblower Cases Unscrupulous gold and rare coin dealers  target seniors in scams because seniors are likely to pick up a phone or respond to an email, and are eager to supplement retirement savings based on […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Banks File $5 Billion in Suspicious Activity Reports of Financial Elder Abuse in 2019 Financial Elder Abuse Can Strike Any Senior Reports of Suspicious Activity Up 300% Seniors in the City of San Francisco and throughout California are increasingly victims of financial elder abuse more than any other […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Financial Powers of Attorney and the Elderly Legal Requirements for powers of Attorney in California A financial Power of Attorney (“POA”) is an important legal document where a principal authorizes an agent to act on the principal’s behalf in business transactions and more.[1] Someone with a financial Power […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER New Laws Protect Seniors From Elder Abuse, Streamline Probate, And Prohibit Exploitation of Seniors in Conservatorships A number of new laws directly affecting seniors took effect in California on January 1, 2020. Those measures impact estate planning, protection from elder abuse, probate proceedings and conservatorships.  The California estate […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER When Financial Predators Strike Taking Advantage Of Isolation And Cognitive Impairment Caregivers With Access To The Check Book Our litigators see a sadly familiar pattern in financial elder abuse cases: an elderly person’s spouse of many years dies and the survivor is left alone. Enter a stranger or […]