This post is dedicated to all of you that are fighting for justice in probate court and who cannot see their beloved seniors or disabled loved ones on Hannakuh, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.  The holidays are sad when “GAL’s” side with the Plenary Guardians to say that someone “aggitates” a senior so the senior is banned from seeing beloved children and grandchildren.  This is happening and continues to happen in the Bedinger case, the Sykes case– and in the Bedin case, the children were threatened their beloved mother would be “taken away” and isolated in a nursing home if Northwestern Memorial Hospital did not “do as it wanted them to do.”

All in the land of the free and the brave.

We talk the talk, but do not fight for justice for these seniors and disabled.  A woman has been writing me about a beloved young niece who has autism and is isolated and abused in a nursing home.

Another wrote me tonight and pleaded “do not write me to say that my father is better off in a nursing home.”

I would never do that.  It is situations like these that are the height of cruelty to elders.

We need the tort of “loss of consortium” passed in every state where seniors are systematically isolated from beloved family members on a whim, caprice or even pure evil and malice.

We need our “Power of Attorney Forms for medical care” in every state to say if you  isolate me from the following people (list beloved children and grandchildren and friends) you will be disinherited.

More needs to be done to represent and respect the rights of the seniors and elderly.

I want to file a class action, and I am looking for funding to do that.  If you can help or look around, please do so.

And in between times, know that I care about you all, I pray for you even if I cannot litigate for you, I will help you even tho your funds are limited or gone.  I cannot fly out to your home state right now and represent you pro bono and pro hace vice, but I hope some day that is a possibility.

I wish everyone during this amazing holiday season, peace, joy, understanding and patience and that you be surrounded with the sympathy, comfort and understanding of your family and friends as you go through these difficult times.  The karmic ties we form in this life time with family are of a magnitude of love that far stronger than any court order, any lies, deceptions, threats by the police and court system to simply ignore and toss out like yesterday’s news paper.  This all just has to change.

Joanne

PS–My Christmas gift from one of my (brilliant) kids was a “disappearing civil rights” mug where you put a hot drink in it, the civil rights printing consisting of the bill of rights, disappears!  how amazingly apropos.  I think Leah Black at the ARDC needs to make that one her china pattern.