Has someone mis-used a power of attorney in Florida or taken a bank account in Boynton Beach. Ask any Florida trust lawyer and they will tell you that financial abuse of the elderly in Florida is a serious concern. Ask any Florida probate litigation law firm in West Palm Beach and they will tell you that you can try to recover stolen money by suing for civil theft, conversion and other elder abuse -specific lawsuits in Florida.
New York Times Article Highlights Financial Abuse Elder Abuse
- A recent, November 27, 2015 article in the New York Times highlights financial abuse ofsenior citizens by financial predators
- Here is the online link to read the New York Times article about financial abuse of the elderly: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/28/your-money/financial-abuse-of-the-elderly-sometimes-unnoticed-always-predatory.html?contentCollection=weekendreads&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=c-column-middle-span-region®ion=c-column-middle-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-middle-span-region
Financial Abuse of the Elderly in Florida
- In Florida, ask estate lawyers in Florida about a son in law or a step child abusing trust & confidence placed in them by an aging parent in Boca Raton
- Or, to learn more about just how wide spread financial exploitation of the senior citizens are, ask any probate litigation attorney about how many lawsuits they have filed to get the stolen money back
- Many Florida probate lawyers try to deal with this by learning who a client’s financial advisors are, and who are the closest family members to a client
- But the problem for some Florida estate lawyers is that sometimes a family member is the financial predator Palm Beach Gardens
- Probate attorneys Florida do their best to understand a client’s needs, and, as they age, how their estate plan may or may not be changed or altered over time
- How many times has a Florida estate attorney written wills and trust and a Florida estate plan for a client for years and years….only to learn that the longtime client, who is now in their 80’s or 90’s for example, “went” to a “new” Florida probate lawyer tochange their estate plan and their Florida will and trust and also change the probate beneficiaries
- Changing who inherits from your Delray Beach estate is just one way a financial abuser or predator can try to get at your money
- Often, sometimes, it is the financial abuser or financial predator who really caused the elderly client Florida senior citizen to go to a new Palm Beach estate lawyer andchange his or her estate plan: in favor of the one who is doing the financial exploitation Florida