Guardianship Oversight Problems in New Jersey<\/u><\/strong><\/h4>\nWhile the Guardianship process in New Jersey appears to address the shortcomings of some other states, there is still room for criticism.<\/p>\n
The Guardianship oversight program run by the County Surrogates is far from perfect. Significantly, there is no funding authorized by the legislature.\u00a0 The Surrogates must rely on volunteers to review the reports filed by guardians and to follow up with those who have missed their deadlines to file.\u00a0 In the more populated counties, I have been told that these annual reports are just filed\u2026not even reviewed by the Surrogate offices. However, in others, such as in Hunterdon County, the oversight is functioning quite well.<\/p>\n
The other issue with guardianship oversight is the general antipathy for all elder abuse issues. I have had cases of abuse where a judge has referred the matter to a county prosecutor for action.\u00a0Nothing happened.\u00a0 Many times, my clients call the police.\u00a0 The police refuse action, saying it is a \u201ccivil matter\u201d.\u00a0Elder abuse in the shape of financial and physical exploitation is rampant in our society and although there are some happy moments, many are ignored.\u00a0 This is wrong.\u00a0 This is unacceptable. It needs to be corrected. Now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Guardianship abuse reports have been in the news repeatedly, https:\/\/www.nextavenue.org\/guardianship-u-s-protection-exploitation. \u00a0Reports of the guardianship system being used to steal and exploit those unable to help themselves are on the rise. Criticism of \u201cthe System\u201d, how one becomes a guardian, and the lack of oversight of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,3007],"tags":[38,1714,40,41,249,66,92],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15422,"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13007\/revisions\/15422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}