Protect Our Parents

Helping to understand elder exploitation, undue influence, & trust fraud. Awareness & insights - not advice My opinion #ElderAbuse #Aging

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Elder financial exploitation steals $28.3 BILLION yearly and 90% of the time it’s by someone known and trusted - often family. 😔
Swipe through for eye-opening insights:
1️⃣ Family dynamics & predatory roots
2️⃣ Coercive control & undue influence tactics
3️⃣ Ideas on safeguards to help prevent POA abuse.
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#ElderAbuse #ProtectOurParents #FinancialExploitation

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@DataRepublican @parkerrm39 @HunterBiden It begins with “trust”.

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@Dward1 Will you share with me? DM or email [email protected]

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Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols just made headlines again after her estate won a massive $13 million wrongful death lawsuit.

But her final years were also plagued by a devastating court battle over dementia, alleged financial exploitations, secret videos, and a fight for her freedom.

This was an interesting case because of the video evidence capturing Nichelle’s wishes.

I haven’t seen the video evidence but I’m thinking that without a detailed plan for care and in light of imminent danger of the alleged financial exploitations, judge likely decided in favor of blood kin.

Advanced planning isn’t always full proof, but specificity in the care plan in event of incapacity is a good preemptive strike.

#StarTrek #ElderCare #conservatorship. #AdvancedPlanning

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@IslandG68443406 We did same. Held separate service.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

She ate lunch alone for 730 days straight. What this 16-year-old built from that pain now protects millions of kids worldwide.

Seventh grade. Natalie Hampton carried her tray through a packed cafeteria and felt it — that specific, suffocating dread of not knowing where to go.

She'd already learned what happened when you approached the wrong table. The silence. The turned backs. The whispered laughter that followed you all the way to the empty table by the wall.

The one everyone could see.

The one that said: nobody wants her.

For two full years — 730 consecutive lunches — that table was hers. Alone.

The bullying went further than whispers. She was shoved into lockers. Four physical attacks in two weeks. She came home with scratches and bruises. When she finally reported it, school administrators sent her to counseling — to find out what she was doing wrong.

The isolation grew so heavy she was hospitalized for anxiety.

Then ninth grade came. A new school. And almost overnight — everything changed. Students welcomed her. She made friends within weeks. She finally knew what safe felt like.

But she couldn't stop thinking about the kids still sitting at the wall table. Right now. Today.

She remembered what she'd needed most during all those lunches. Not a teacher. Not a pamphlet. Just one person saying: "You can sit with us."

So at 16 — with zero coding experience and "a lot of enthusiasm," as she put it — Natalie built exactly that.

She called it Sit With Us.

The idea was simple and genius: students sign up as "ambassadors," keeping their table open. Other kids privately browse available tables on their phones before ever walking into the cafeteria — and show up knowing they're already welcome.

No public rejection. No moment of judgment. Just a guaranteed seat.

Within 7 days of launching: 10,000 downloads.

Then the world found her. NPR. The Washington Post. CBS News. Messages from Morocco, Australia, the Philippines, France — kids who'd been eating alone for years, finally finding a place to belong.

Sit With Us now operates in 30 countries.

"Even if it helps one person," Natalie said quietly, "it was worth building."

She turned 730 lunches of loneliness into a lifeline for millions.

That's not just survival. That's transformation.

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@jennyrozelle @LegalTeaPodcast Think I missed that one. Will have to check it out.

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@jennyrozelle @Retire4000 Interesting that she had a copy of the trust but didn’t understand the distribution. Perhaps shocked by the red flag. Asked for a review like, “am I reading this right?” I know that feeling well.

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@jennyrozelle @elyasandkhoy He must receive monthly statements. That’s reminder. I’m not as kind. 🤣

[Oliver Cushing | Attorney ⚖️ @OliverBCushing]

People hear “liability” and think it just means someone did something wrong. But liability is not just about blame. It is about whether the law connects the facts to a recognized duty, a breach, actual causation, and a remedy the system will enforce.
That is why someone can seem clearly in the wrong and still not end up legally liable in the way people expect.

[CarePath FINANCIAL⚡ @CarePathFIN]

One of the great misconceptions about caregiving is that it is a temporary chapter. For many families, it quietly becomes the backdrop of everyday life, reshaping careers, finances, relationships, and identities. The Sandwich Generation is not a demographic trend. It is millions of people learning to carry multiple generations at the same time.

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@chicjustice Legislation that continues to work against families.

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Broward County families are hitting a barrier to justice.

Victims tell us attorneys file the required annual guardianship and trust reports with the courthouse, but under Florida Statute 744.3701, these reports are confidential by default. On the e-file they appear as those red locked boxes. Families are completely shut out.

One family member had to file a full appeal just to see the financial records that should be theirs by right. The bank trustee? Only broken pieces were provided - missing months, no full accounting and no proof of payments.

Hiding the full financials and medical decisions creates a vicious loop. When a loved one isn’t being cared for properly or the estate is mysteriously dwindling, families have no way to see the evidence they need. Without those records, they can’t prove neglect, mismanagement, or exploitation which means they can’t effectively petition the court to remove a bad guardian or take any real action.

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[Chic Justice @chicjustice]

Ditto for residential care-home, medical-staffing companies, caregiving agencies, home-health agencies, etc. Even when all entities share same owner. The loopholes and fraud used to circumvent regulatory oversight by “piggy-backing” off one of their licensed homes is strategic and calculated. Ask @BukekileD.

She has ownership in nearly every aspect of the elder-care industry spectrum and deceives the public into believing her unlicensed operations are licensed by fudging some numbers. And she’s STILL in business. Assuming @DallasPD North Central Third doesn’t want to arrest her for the operation of multiple unlicensed homes given a criminal record would prevent her from making more $$$. Never mind serving and protecting the vulnerable anyways. Right? It’s just a motto.

Or is DPD just conducting a super thorough 6+ Year investigation? It’s not like any of those she falsely-imprisons in her homes are in imminent risk of grievous bodily injury and/or death…

Oh. Wait. They. Are. And. DPD. Knows.

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[Commonwealth Unity PAC @CWUnityPAC]

Nothing says transparency like writing a transparency bill in secret with no public hearing, passing it in 24 hours, blocking the courts from stepping in, and burying a loophole letting the Senate refuse an audit entirely!
https://t.co/aFrd0ynUQu

[Protect Our Parents @ProtectParents]

Removing an older person from the hone they’re receiving care in occurs frequently enough. Look at @MifsudCynthia case. Cindy was trustee, POA, and her mom’s trust had a quorum where majority of 4 adult children served as protection. But a granddaughter removed Cindy’s mom from her home, started telling lies to cause alienation and tried to move assets using a new POA. She refused to return Cindy’s mom and wouldn’t allow the three adult children to see their mom…

[Oliver Cushing | Attorney ⚖️ @OliverBCushing]

A bad fact can matter more than a good argument because arguments live or die on the facts underneath them.
You can have a clean theory, a smart framing, and a perfectly sound rule, but one ugly fact can make the whole position harder to defend, harder to explain, and much easier for the other side to attack.
A lot of legal strategy starts with understanding which facts are doing the real damage, not pretending a better argument will make them disappear.

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@bostonherald Senator Kim Young informs Congress POA abuse is a crisis in the USA (2026)