From Ken Ditkowsky, what rights do a ward have, according to case law?

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From Ken Ditkowsky, what rights do a ward have, according to case law?

by jmdenison



Dear Readers;

In light of the fact that the Probate court is pushing its agenda that a ward MUST have an attorney selected from a list approved by the court, and a ward has no rights, as evidenced by Judge Connors deposition (published on this site), one wonders what is really going on.

I recall some years ago where SCOTUS (the US Supreme Ct) ruled that a 12 year old had the right to an atty that was separate from that chosen by his parents or the court.

A 12 year old has better rights that grandma or grandpa fighting a guardianship? I would hope not. But that's what is going on everyday on the 18th floor of the Daley center and in other Probate courts in Illinois.

And I believe that just isn't right.

Read on for some words of wisdom from Ken:

JoAnne

From Ken:

What has been happening to various seniors has been addressed by the Courts in a different context.

Molko v. Holy Spirit Assn., 46 Cal. 3d 1092, 252 Cal. Rptr. 122, 762 P.2d 46 (1988), as modified on denial of reh'g, (Dec. 1, 1988) (holding that the appointment of the parents as the temporary conservators of their adult children pursuant to a former statute that provided for the appointment of conservators of a person who is likely to be deceived or imposed upon by artful or designing persons, on the basis that the children had become coercively persuaded or brainwashed by a religious organization that they had joined, was a violation of the conservatees' federal and state constitutional rights to religious freedom, in the absence of such actions that rendered the children gravely disabled as defined by law); Katz v. Superior Court, 73 Cal. App. 3d 952, 141 Cal. Rptr. 234 (1st Dist. 1977).

In an action by the parents of an 18-year-old congenitally deaf woman who was alleged to be incompetent under a state statute on the grounds that she was socially naive and was being brainwashed, programmed, and secreted by members of a religious sect, the daughter could not be declared incompetent on a finding that she was “judgmentally immature” where the sole effect of immaturity as the standard by which to judge one incompetent to manage her person or property manifested itself as an abridgement of her constitutionally guaranteed right to the free exercise of her religious beliefs, there being no financial assets of which the woman could be deprived by artful or designing persons. Matter of Guardianship of Polin, 1983 OK 111, 675 P.2d 1013, 44 A.L.R.4th 1199 (Okla. 1983).

39 Am. Jur. 2d Guardian and Ward § 24

Apparently in some States the Constitution is taken seriously and the First Amendment actually means something. I am glad of that.jmdenison
September 20, 2012 at 12:34 am
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