Probate Nightmare Can Anyone Help?
This is the latest of what seems to be a hundred letters I have written trying to get help, of which there seems to be none, all because it's a piddly civil matter, I am positive this goes on in every state in this country and something must be done.
This has destroyed my family who are good people who lived their lives according to the American rules and dreams only to be taken advantage in their time if need.
I would like you to completely understand what has been done not to only my parents, but my entire family, which will have an impact for generations to come, due to our family history coming to a complete end, at the hands of a guardian of an estate and the property manager and his employee’s that the guardian hired.
Please if you would put yourself not only into my parent’s shoes but also mine, my daughters and any children she may bring into this world.
You worked all your life to obtain possessions, you inherited many items from family members that have passed, you saved and you hoped to one day be able to hand down what you inherited, possessed and saved.
Let’s also say that you did your part for the Indianapolis society, by working for the Marion County Sheriffs department, something both Robert & Edith Gladson did,
Let’s also say that you worked for the Indiana University Dental School for many many years for a very well known professor, typed and proof read all of his books and in each of these books your name was written and acknowledged.
Now the situation at hand, and Please continue to place yourself into Ken & Edith Gladson’s situation.
Your wife begins to show signs of memory loss and you take her to the doctor and the doctor confirms that she is in the beginning stages of Alzheimer’s, so a few weeks after that visit you decide to take your wife to visit relatives in Tennessee not realizing that you too are suffering from a disease, that is curable, but undetected.
This disease causes short term memory loss due to not enough oxygen getting to your brain.
On your trip to Tennessee you become lost and the more lost you get the more confused you get, leading to a minor accident in another state.
This Aging facility that you are taken to in this state decides to begin medication on you and you are forced to stay in that aging facility in another state for 5 weeks, because your son in law has had it out for you for a number of years.
Your son tries for the entire 5 weeks to find you but the son-in-law has placed barriers on him, because son-in-law has his own plan.
Your son has no choice but to get an attorney because son-in-law will not cooperate with your son.
Finally you are allowed to speak to your son and explain exactly what you want done.
Once beds become available in an Indiana nursing home your son-in-law has you transferred from the other state and places you into this nursing home, using your money.
During this ordeal your son-in-law has spent $30,000 of your savings paying nursing homes, private nurses, travel agencies, airlines and attorneys.
Son-in-law’s plan is now to turn all of your property over to the Indiana nursing home in exchange for boarding you and your wife.
Your son is finally allowed to intervene and an emergency hearing is set.
At this hearing your daughter makes the statement that she wants you to be placed into a 24 hour locked facility, and makes bad statements about your son, your son however is at this hearing leaving work in Florida to do what it takes to fulfill your wishes which would be to not spend your remaining years in a nursing home.
The Judge in this matter sides with your son and son is allowed to take you out of the Indiana nursing home and back to your home in Cloverdale.
During the first 5 months of being back home the guardian receives all of your retirement even though your bills do not add up to the entire amount, which is $3,600.00 a month.
During the 7 months son is with you in Cloverdale you attend another hearing which daughter does not attend, in which court allows son to move you and your wife to Florida to continue caring in whatever way is necessary to continue to live at home.
During one of your trips to Florida, guardian of estate appointed by the court, Mr. Robert Thompson, hires a property manager named Bill Teuton, Mr. Teuton ( who has never met any member of the Gladson family) on request from guardian locks you out of your own home and is allowed to enter your home.
During your first few months in Florida, your son becomes your Durable Power of Attorney and has to make the necessary changes in order that you can receive your retirement checks, son is able to make those changes to all but 2 of your checks, the guardian has continued to receive those for 2 going on 3 years now.
Totaling at least $560.00 for 30 months, which is $16,800.00
You finally move to Florida with son into home in gated community, son has you evaluated by the Lee County Memory Clinic at the Lee County Memorial Hospital by a very well known neurologist and Director of the hospital.
This neurologist makes a diagnosis that Edith in fact does has irreversible Alzheimer’s disease, you however still maintain the capacity to determine who you want to be guardian, make changes in your will and any legal matter that pertain to you and your wife.
Son sends the diagnosis and the Declaration of Domicile for Fort Myers to the court in Indiana, in order to have the nightmare ended, however the documents started a process which ended all of the Gladson family history.
During the time in Florida, you had not moved anything from your home in Cloverdale with the exception of small items and 2 tables, 2 end tables and a coffee tables, in all about 1% of your possessions were moved due to there not being enough money to move them.
Once documents were submitted to the court in Indiana, guardian had Mr. Bill Teuton return to our home rent a dumpster using your money had his employee’s enter home and begin throwing away every single item that was in your home, this dumpster was 8 foot high and 30 feet long.
Mr. Teuton’s employee’s were even allowed to enter the home without anyone else present and began taking what they wanted, and were actually caught by the Cloverdale Police and Putnam County Sheriffs’ departments loading up their cars.
Once son was notified by the neighbors about the dumpster the neighbors began to try and save from the dumpster what wasn’t broken, they stated it was everything Ken & Edith had ever owned in the dumpster, while they were saving what they could, the driver for the dumpster company showed up and neighbors called son and son asked the driver if he could put off taking the dumpster till the neighbors could save what could be saved, the driver said he would have to call his dispatcher, he called dispatcher and he stated he would have to call Mr. Thompson, and when dispatcher called the driver back neighbor’s stated he said Mr. Thompson wanted the dumpster out of there RIGHT NOW!! even the driver stated that he knew what was in the dumpster wasn’t trash but there was nothing he could do.
Some of the items that were saved from dumpster, were items such as, Depression glass cake plates belonging to my grandmother, family bibles handed down, every conceivable item that people could have possessed in 75 years of life was in the dumpster, items that define a persons life on this planet, items that contain memories of those lives, memories all gone, due to a person being allowed to file an order with the court and have it stamped by the clerk, and send someone to hurriedly destroy and steal every single item.
To this day the guardian says that there is absolutely no money from anything, no one is accountable for anything, the Judge won't answer any questions, because he says it would be unethical to do so, guardian says he has nothing.
Now Ken & Edith are in an assisted living facility in Indiana due to Mr. Thompson keeping a portion of their retirement which they needed to live on, of which he states there is nothing, I guess he must charge a really good fee for his service’s which include doing nothing but putting destruction into motion.
Even now that Mr. Thompson is once again receiving all of Ken & Edith’s retirement, he states that there is nothing and son is being billed for Ken & Edith’s living expenses which are $5,500.00 per month, and now is a total of $27,000.00, just since May 2005, which son is being held accountable for because Ken & Edith’s retirement is going into Mr. Thompson’s pocket.
Not only did Mr. Tueton, his employee’s and Mr. Thompson steal Ken & Edith’s possessions, they also stole, Bob Gladson possessions and lifetime of memories, and Christa Gladson ( granddaughter ) who was in their will, Mr. Thompson was notified by the granddaughter that items of hers were also taken and he told her too bad, their gone.
There are many witnesses to this nightmare but it doesn’t seem to matter, the only way to defend Ken & Edith Gladson is with more money of which there is none.
It’s really something how one day they had it made because they took all the necessary steps to insure they could make it in retirement, only to have ruthless people end it all with a swipe of a pen.
I realize that Government, The System, Judges and Attorneys are one entity, they all socialize and take care of one another, one hand scratching the other, but this is an exact example of what needs to be changed and stopped, its really a shame in all the talks I’ve had about this situation the one statement always comes up, “IT HAPPENS EVERYDAY”.
Mr. Thompson, Mr. Tueton and his employee’s were allowed to take what they wanted of all Ken & Edith worked a lifetime for and throw what they didn’t want away, and let me tell you there was no trash in that house, it was all family heirlooms, antique’s and memories.