When a Family Matter Turns Into a Business

By Robin Fields, Evelyn Larrubia and Jack Leonard Nov. 13, 2005 12 AM PT Times Staff Writers Helen Jones sits in a wheelchair, surrounded by strangers who control her life. She is not allowed to answer the telephone. Her mail is screened. She cannot spend her own money. A child of the Depression, Jones, 87, worked hard for decades, driving rivets into World War II fighter planes, making neckties, threading bristles into nail-polish brushes. She saved obsessively, putting away $560,000 for her old age. Her life changed three years ago, when a woman named Melodie Scott told a court in San Bernardino that Jones was unable to manage for herself. Without asking Jones, a judge made Scott — someone she had never met — her legal guardian. Scott is a professional conservator. It was her responsibility to protect Jones and conserve her nest egg. So far, Scott has spent at least $200,000 of it. The money has gone to pay Scott’s fees, fill Jones’ house with new appliances she did not want and hire attendants to supervise her around the clock, among other expenses. Once Jones grasped what was happening, she found a lawyer and tried, unsuccessfully, to end Scott’s hold on her. “I don’t want to be a burden to anyone,” she told a judge, almost apologetically. “I just wanted to be on my own.” Jones’ world has narrowed. She used to call Dial-A-Ride and go to the market, or sit in her driveway chatting with neighbors. Now she spends her days watching television in her living room in Yucaipa, amid pots of yellow plastic flowers and lamps with no shades. The caretakers rarely take her from her house, except to see the free movie each Friday at the… Read More

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The Victims the state of California does not want you to know about

Who judges the judges while government ignores victims These are only a fraction of news articles that 100% exposed the problem of Probate courts but sadly they leave it to the same corrupt criminals when it comes to “REFORM” which always is more FAKE paid jobs for more connected criminals to pretend to oversee and hold accountable the judges, Fiduciaries and lawyers. All lies and failed promised for decades Conservatorship and Guardianship Abuse articles Thank you Citizens Public Safety corruptionmaps THINK IT’S JUST A FEW VICTIMS? THINK LAW, BILLS, CODES, STATUTES protect victims? THINK Government is about protecting victims or the criminals? A FEW OF THOUSANDS IN JUST CALIFORNIA Bishop, Delores Zerada, http://stopguardianabuse.org/victim-profiles/dolores-zerda-bishop-ca/ Castle, Charlie, https://www.activistpost.com/2012/10/man-held-in-mental-health-detention-to.html Carr, Inez America http://barryyeoman.com/2004/01/stolen-lives/ Cohen, Michelle http://elderabusebyguardian.wordpress.com/tag/guardianship/ Cook, Reta http://abc7news.com/archive/9389698/ Copley, Marion http://ppjg.me/2011/01/24/predatory-guardians-how-courts-are-allowing-professional-guardians-to-rob-your-assets/ Deaton, James Deaton http://ppjg.me/2011/01/24/predatory-guardians-how-courts-are-allowing-professional-guardians-to-rob-your-assets/ Dell, Francis http://articles.latimes.com/2005/nov/13/local/me-conserve13/4 Edelman, Mary http://articles.latimes.com/2005/nov/13/local/me-conserve13 Fairfield, Florry http://articles.latimes.com/2005/nov/13/local/me-conserve13/5 Ferarri, Helen,http://stopguardianabuse.org/victim-profiles/helen-ferarri-ca/ Frerichs, Elinor http://stopguardianabuse.org/victim-profiles/elinor-frerichs-ca/ Gettinger, Gertrude http://www.uglyjudge.com/uglyiest/ Golin, Nancy http://stopguardianabuse.org/victim-profiles/nancy-golin/ Greene, Clay http://nclrights.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/victory-sonoma-county-settles-with-clay-greene-for-over-600000/ Guinn, June http://www.blogtalkradio.com/marti-oakley/2013/06/03/where-is-june-e-guinn Henson, Helen, http://stopguardianabuse.org/victim-profiles/helen-hanson-ca/ Hererra, Theresa http://articles.latimes.com/2005/nov/13/local/me-conserve13 Hoblyn , John Figg, http://stopguardianabuse.org/victim-profiles/john-figg-hoblyn-ca/ Infererra, Pearl http://barryyeoman.com/2004/01/stolen-lives/ Jones, Helen http://articles.latimes.com/2005/nov/13/local/me-conserve13 Klaiber, Sylvia http://nasga-stopguardianabuse.blogspot.com/2008/03/free-silvia-klaiber.html Klublikin, Tanya https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLda7qIgV7E&feature=share Lamborn, Jaimie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0J7GtW55yE Larabee, Thelma http://articles.latimes.com/2005/nov/13/local/me-conserve13 Ledingham, Jeanne http://articles.latimes.com/2005/nov/13/local/me-conserve13/5 Mandell, Peter, http://stopguardianabuse.org/victim-profiles/roy-kotval-ia/ Mackay,Joan, http://stopguardianabuse.org/victim-profiles/joan-mackay-ca/ Mushet, Dorothy http://articles.latimes.com/2005/nov/13/local/me-conserve13/6 Olivera, Guadalupe http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/las-vegas/escape-was-only-option-old-soldier-trapped-guardian-system-0 Postier, Ruth http://articles.latimes.com/2005/nov/13/local/me-conserve13/6 Price, Stevie http://stopguardianabuse.org/victim-profiles/stephen-price-jr-ca/ Reed, Danny http://lawmrh.wordpress.com/2012/12/18/california-appeals-court-gives-danny-reed-relief-but-in-arizona-marie-longs-not-so-lucky/ Riordan, Gisele http://ppjg.me/2012/11/19/silicon-valley-tax-dollars-fund-elder-abuse-apathy-negligence-by-law-enforcement-district-attorney/ and http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news%2Fiteam&id=8870462 Rosen, Patricia, http://stopguardianabuse.org/victim-profiles/patricia-rosen-ca/ Rosenkrant, Stewart http://guardianabuse.blogspot.com/2010/05/please-help-stuart-rosenkrantz-stay-out.html Sarhan, Yvonne http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/death-can-be-lone-way-out-of-guardianship-prison/Content?oid=2185712 Shelton, Charlotte http://articles.latimes.com/2005/nov/13/local/me-conserve13/6 Tanaka, Jean http://www.thelegacylawyers.com/news/elder-abuse-and-inheritance-theft-collide-and-collude20110718.cfm Thomas, Charles http://articles.latimes.com/2005/nov/13/local/me-conserve13/4 Van Beekum, Christian http://ppjg.me/2011/01/24/predatory-guardians-how-courts-are-allowing-professional-guardians-to-rob-your-assets/ Zelada, Margarita http://www.examiner.com/article/monterey-county-public-guardian-seeks-to-chemically-restrain-elder-abuse-victim?CID=examiner_alerts_article A FEW OF THOUSANDS IN ARIZONA Ball, Eleanor http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/20100924maricopa-county-probate-court-ball-0926.html Brinkerhoff, Nora, http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2000-06-15/news/checks-imbalances/3/ Brown, Rosemary and Horrigan, Gloria http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGXseTxbkqw Christiana, Bess http://nasga-stopguardianabuse.blogspot.com/2010/12/another-maricopa-county-case.html Ellen Davis,http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1993-09-08/news/as-helpless-as-children/full/ DiPardo, Claire http://www.sonorannews.com/archives/2012/120606/frontpage-Thomas.html Franklin, Mazie, http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2000-06-15/news/checks-imbalances/3/ Gannett, Grace, http://issues.flemingandcurti.com/1997/08/11/phoenix-attorney-convicted-of-theft-from-estates-of-elderly/ Gannon, Kathleen, http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2000-06-15/news/checks-imbalances/3/ Jellie, Josephine, http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2000-06-15/news/checks-imbalances/3/ Long, Marie http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-7179542.html http://www.victimsofguardians.net/ Lund, Brad http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2011/10/bradford_lund_disney_heir_asks.php Mason, Doris, http://stopguardianabuse.org/victim-profiles/doris-e-mason-az/ Ravenscroft,… Read More

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