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I want to know why this attorney was trolling for clients? Does Texas Terrace make it a point of introducing this woman to new residences? Sounds very fishy to me.....

Just because his client, Lisa Brown, may have spent money properly doesn't mean he needs to call an elderly woman who is unfamiliar with the system incompetent. Also, Ms. Brown should probably include spouses in financial planning if she really wants to be seen as a "professional." The nerve of some people...

How exactly did this "Lisa Brown" get access to this man???? It's absolutely disgusting behavior and I truly hope she gets her just desserts for what she did to this family.

The article does not identify Ms. Brown as an attorney, rather a professional guardian. Be careful with the anti-attorney bias. Having said that...it still sounds very fishy, so call your legislators and tell them to change the law.

does this happen? This woman really thinks she has a right to take over this man's life savings, plan this man's funeral, how much of a kick back does she give to the nursing home and would the funeal home she made arrangements with happen to belong to her brother-in-law? This is just as scarry as those girls from Albert Lea. The nursing home probabally justifies it as "an attempt to collect a debt". This woman is nothing more than a predator. I'm guessing this happens a lot more than we know. How can she really think that what she did was OK? Disturbing. Part of taking care of someone in this condition is to ask yourself "what would they want" I highly doubt that he would want this stranger rather than his wife taking over his life (and death).The really scarry thing about becomeing incapassitated is the vulneability. A decent nursing home's job is to protect that vulnerability, not exploit it. Thank's for listing the name of the Nursing Home that did not protect this man.

No way this woman should not have worked with this man's family. Completely unethical, and may prove to be criminal.

My family had the same experience a few years ago with my grandparents. Basically what happens is the nursing home has bills they want paid off. So they call these "professional guardians" to come in and talk to an Alzheimer's patient. These patients then "supposedly" grant power of attorney to the professional guardian who then immediately cleans out their bank accounts and takes a hefty fee for doing so. The witnesses to all this are the nursing home officials who were the ones that called the guardians in the first place. So now the bills are paid off; the patient and his family are dead broke; and the government will now step in and pay for the nursing home expenses. Of course the remaining spouse now has no money at all because the nursing home cleans out her savings account too. And any complaints are met by a stack of form letters from the nursing home's lawyers that threaten to throw Grandpa out on the street.

This man's wife should have been included in the decision making, no doubt about it. But for the most part I think that Ms. Brown was trying to do the best for her client though I question the expensive funeral plan which the wife should have definitely been included in. Caring for the elderly or disabled can be very tricky and the laws need to be looked at very closely. This should have never happened this way.

there's nothing criminal or here. She paid herself $250/month? That's peanuts. The wife didn't have the affairs in order and Lisa Brown put them in order. The wife would have ended up paying way more in the long run. There's no victim here and really is another "story" that's not really a story. I'd be more worried about kids and grandkids getting their hands on the money!

You should really have only one POA to give.