08-09-2019, 09:30 PM
A-Polly wrote:
Gosh, GeneL, what a stressful and complicated mess! I agree with whoever said the above, "Follow the money."
Unfortunately, I have no experience with collectibles but would be happy to donate if it comes to that. I hope your collections aren't locked up in the home you can't enter, though!
Also second the suggestion to speak with the social worker at your facility, and Adult Protective Services, and any of the legal aid suggestions mentioned above. The social worker at my dad's rehab facility was very kind and helpful.
Good luck, good thoughts, and best wishes coming at you from across the country. And hoping for Mavis to gain strength, too.
APS (Adult Protective Services) is pretty much worthless in the populated counties of California. Unless there are broken bones and/or mass quantities of blood, APS won't do squat. There are simply too many broken, bloody, and battered adults to deal with, so that verbal, mental, emotional, and anything up thru moderate physical abuse, simply don't rate wasting the precious few APS resource dollars the counties' have on those types of cases.
A social worker may be good for hand holding, which is helpful, but without multi-day hospital stay violence involved, keeping matters like this in the civil court arena, is only a game for multi-millionaires, and wealthier, to get involved in. Clinic level resources are stretched way too thin, and even when they are available, the level of realized service is pathetic at best. In CA's populous counties, you gotta pay, and pay big, in order to play. You can be guaranteed the only winners are gonna be the lawyers.... the Richie McRiches may get an occasional empiric victory, but a just, and fair, and cost effective resolution is a pipe dream.
Gene needs Dr, Phil... or Tony Soprano.
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