Susan Evans goes to court to become guardian and conservator for her father, James Belew.  Even though Susan has a fully executed power of attorney for her father, the court ignores it.  As it turns out, after dementia set-in on James, the step-mother got a power of attorney signed.

So, instead of appointing either Susan or the step-mother to be the conservator, the judge first appoints a “temporary” conservator and a guardian-ad-litem until a full hearing can be held.

The father tells the guardian-ad-litem he has chosen his daughter and wishes for her to be the conservator, but the court refuses to listen.

Hearings come and hearings go, and the daughter’s voice is failed to be heard, her father’s wishes go unmet. What’s worse, in one hearing a witness tells the court the two family members have argued in front of the father, and the judge uses that as the basis to make the temporary conservatorship permanent. The witness statement — untrue according to the daughter.

Read the story here, Alabama Today

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