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Seeking Guardianship Appointment to Ensure Payment of Nursing Home Charge  


Author:  Roslyn  Myers, J.D., M.A..; Dana  Shilling, J.D..


Source: Volume 18, Number 03, September/October 2015 , pp.35-38(4)




Victimization of the Elderly and Disabled

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Abstract: 

The practice of petitioning for guardianship to pay the nursing home bills of an incapacitated individual is not unusual. It may not even be a suspicious practice—unless the individual already has willing family members and the one petitioning to become the guardian is the nursing home. The boundaries of appropriate nursing home actions in this context have been the subject of several reports, discussed here.

Keywords: statutes governing the appointment of public guardians; exhausted savings; disputed charges; Article 81; Matter of Karl Willner (F.G.), 2014 NY Slip Op. 51675 (U); Financial incompetence

Affiliations:  1: Editor; 2: Editor.

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