Category: California Financial Elder Abuse Attorney

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Seniors at Risk of Financial and Physical Elder Abuse Over 5 Million Reported Cases Every Year Looking for Signs of Abuse Authorities estimate that elder abuse crimes against 5 million senior citizens are reported each year in the United States, a number equal to the combined total of […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Seniors at Risk of Financial and Physical Elder Abuse Looking for Signs of Abuse Act to Stop It Elder abuse of various kinds can strike any senior, especially isolated ones or seniors confined to nursing homes or other care facilities. Dementia patients are at particular risk of financial […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Caregivers and Financial Elder Abuse Caregiver Accused of Stealing Jewelry And Cash From Several Elderly Patient Preventing Caregiver Theft In-home caregivers have access to a senior’s jewelry, silver, ATM cards, cash, bank accounts and important papers unless you keep them out of reach. Greedy caregivers strike quickly and […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Challenging Invalid Trusts and Trust Amendments Trusts, Trust Amendments, And Financial Elder Abuse Schemes Persons Disinherited By Allegedly Invalid Amendments Can Sue California law is now clear that a person disinherited by a trust amendment has standing to challenge the validity of that amendment in Probate Court. In […]

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 […]