Dear Readers;

As you have heard it on this blog, there have been at least a half dozen cases which ran without jurisdiction:  Sykes, Wyman (death was her way out), Gore (ditto), Bedin (wrongfully evicted from hospital), Tyler (death)–in fact, once a petition is filed, death is generally the only way out.  If you ask Sylvia Rudek, director of NASGA, only a handful of people have gotten out of a filed guardianship Petition.  Wyman had the only way–and that is to run.  Carol Wyman, beaten and near death, escaped a locked down Illinois nursing home, called a son and was driven thru the night to Colorado.

Her case is famous, but still ended in the tragedy she could not see her grandchildren or any longer live in Illinois without fear she would be arrested and returned to a locked down nursing facility.

So, here is one (brave) Santa Clara woman that escaped–but the Public Guardian billed (bilked?) her $20,000 after her case was dismissed, watch on:

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=9389661&syndicate=syndicate&section

I guess if you want to avoid guardianship, have a yearly statement of sanity and competency and an RV ready to escape “the authorities.”

Smart woman, brave woman, but see how she cries for all the other probate victims.

thanks

joanne