Syndicate Legal Advisory Services prepares court forms, reports, and letters for a person seeking protection from, or help addressing, physical or financial abuse of an elder or dependent adult.
What’s included:
- Safety first. Before intake, we give every client a written resource list: 911, Adult Protective Services, the Long-Term Care Ombudsman, the district attorney’s elder abuse unit, the National Domestic Violence Hotline (for abuse by a partner), the court’s self-help center, and legal aid. We tell clients that free help is available and that filing for a protective order is generally free.
- Confidential intake. A structured questionnaire collects the elder’s information (name, age, residence, living situation), the person completing the intake and their relationship to the elder, the alleged abuser and their relationship, the incidents the client chooses to describe (with dates, places, injuries, witnesses, and reports made), and the help the client is seeking.
- Identity and authority confirmation. We ask whether the client is the elder or is acting for the elder, and request documentation of any authority (such as a power of attorney, conservatorship, or a letter from the elder), and we record the elder’s own wishes where the elder is available to state them.
- Elder or dependent adult abuse restraining order forms. We complete the Request for Elder or Dependent Adult Abuse Restraining Orders, the Notice of Court Hearing, Temporary Restraining Order, Confidential Information forms, and related forms along with any and all state specific forms.
- Declarations in the client’s words. We type the supporting declaration from the client’s account, covering conduct such as physical abuse, neglect, isolation, abandonment, and financial exploitation.
- Financial documentation organizer. We organize the client’s own records into an index and timeline, such as bank statements, deeds, powers of attorney, wills and trusts, account changes, checks, and correspondence.
- Reports and complaints (client-directed). From the client’s facts, we prepare a written report to Adult Protective Services, a complaint to the Long-Term Care Ombudsman, a letter to law enforcement or the district attorney’s elder abuse unit, a complaint to the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation or a financial institution, and, where a licensed caregiver or facility is involved, a complaint to the relevant licensing agency.
- Financial institution letters (client-directed). Over the elder’s or authorized person’s signature, we prepare letters asking a bank or brokerage to freeze or flag an account, provide records, or investigate, and a request to revoke or change a financial power of attorney, from the client’s information.
- Revocation and replacement documents (optional). For an elder who has capacity and wants to act, we prepare, at the elder’s direction, a revocation of a power of attorney, a new durable power of attorney, and an advance health care directive.
- Service documents. We prepare the Proof of Personal Service and a service checklist. The protected person cannot serve the papers. At the client’s direction, we arrange a registered process server at the client’s cost.
- Filing logistics. We provide a filing packet with copy and filing instructions and a hearing checklist, and at the client’s direction handle e-filing or courier filing where the court allows.
- Hearing packet. We prepare an exhibit index and a checklist of items to bring.
- Renewal and modification (optional). We prepare the request to renew or change an existing order, from facts the client supplies.
ELDER ABUSE
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