Category: Elder Financial Abuse

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Caregiver Allegedly Stole $315,000 From 92-Year-Old Woman Forged Checks And Unauthorized Use Of Debit Card Charges Caregiver Sentenced To Five Year Prison Sentence Whenever a caregiver or stranger enters a failing senior’s home, there’s a risk of theft and financial elder abuse.  The theft may be a quick […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Bookkeeper Accused Of Stealing Over $210,000  Charged With Elder Abuse, Wire Fraud And Money Laundering Police Allege Five Years Of Theft Seniors are vulnerable to financial abuse from any quarter including from the very persons they hire to take care of their financial affairs. Whenever, an unscrupulous person […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Understand The Costs And Complexity Of Universal Life Insurance Premium Payments Continue Until Death Investment Risks And Caps On Growth Indexed Universal Life Insurance is a complicated life insurance product often sold by insurance agents as a retirement savings or estate planning investment. Agents sell universal life policies […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Securities Broker Sentenced For Theft From Elderly Client Access To Account, Unauthorized Transactions, And Theft Broker Sentenced To Five Years In Prison Seniors are vulnerable to financial elder abuse from strangers and caregivers who come into a senior’s life only towards the end of a senior’s life.  But […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Annuities Are Complicated Insurance Policies  Disadvantages For Seniors Understand How Annuities Work Before You Are Sold One Evans Law Firm, Inc. recommends seniors avoid deferred annuities because these insurance contracts are costly and complicated and expensive to get out of once you are in one.  Tax deferrals can […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Charges Of Theft In Orange And Riverside Counties Multiple Investigations Under Way Theft Of Cash From Another Victim In-home caregivers have access to a senior’s jewelry, cash, valuables, credit cards, bank accounts and important papers unless you keep them out of reach. They also have access to a […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Annuities Are Expensive, Complicated Insurance Policies  Agents Earn High Commissions On Your Premium Dollars Surrender Penalties Make Getting Out Costly Fear tactics are one way insurance agents use to sell annuities. Print and radio ads may warn senior readers or audiences about the perils of the stock market […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Safely Reunite With Older Loves Ones This Holiday A Year Of Extreme Difficulty For Seniors Safely Resume An Active Role In Senior Lives Happy Fourth of July 2021!  This year’s Fourth will certainly be closer to normal than last year’s and we at Evans Law Firm, Inc. urge […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Alleged Jewelry Theft Caught On In-Home Camera Elderly Victim Goes To Police Thought She Could Trust Her Therapist We cannot stress enough that seniors are potential victims of financial elder abuse whenever a stranger or caregiver enters their home.  Experience shows that cash, jewelry, keepsakes, checkbooks, credit cards, […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER 78-Year-Old Dementia Victim Suffered Physical and Financial Elder Abuse Hospital Notifies Police San Francisco Sees Increase In Elder Abuse Cases Cases of reported elder and dependent adult abuse have jumped 18-20% year over year in San Francisco since 2017 according to the Family Violence Council in San Francisco. […]