A Probate Case To Watch

"Some of these relatives and friends will be in the North Haven court today, including Reinhard Knittel and Helmut Claus, who have traveled from Germany for today's hearing. Others are coming from New York, Boston and Washington, D.C."

It's nice to know that these relatives and friends, "will be in the North Haven court today..." I take that to mean they will be in the actual court room, and not only "the principles/litigants" allowed?

Thank you for following up on this case, and I look forward to reading about a disposition of this "case" in favor of Margot Claus and her relatives and friends.

Guardianship and conservatorship abuses are out of control in our country. These probate courts should be ashamed!

The world needs more reporters like Rick Green who fearlessly expose the corrupt practices.

Another excelent article Mr. Green!!!!!!!!! Please keep up the Guardianship Abuse issue. We need the world to know what the probate court systems all around the country is doing to our elderly citizens.
I know that what you are writting about is a nightmare to not only the elderly, but their family and friends as well, because it is happening to my family and others like it in just about every state in the US.
All of our stories are horrific, and the sad part is that without reporters like you the word would not be getting out. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

They should leave this little lady alone and let her family take care of her.

My in-laws have not only lost all that they worked hard for all their lives to the court and its so called guardians, and attorneys, but they have also had to spend the last good years of their lives in a nursing home kept from family and friends, drugged, just sitting around confussed.
Kim

Keep up the "agenda" and doing your job, Rick! Connecticut is lucky to have you!

Most of the time these abuses go unnoticed across the nation while the victim and their families suffer.

Even if Mrs. Claus is liberated, she will pay the price in attorneys' billings. That is the impetus that drives these abuses.

Dear Rick,

Kudo's on your article. I have been researching the same kind of stuff out in Denver since 1994.
You might want to contact Sue Lindsey at the Rocky Mountain News for an archived article about Denver Probate Court titled "The Probate Pit".

Thanks again

Bob Barry

Thank you Mr. Green for another important article regarding Guardianship! My experience with Probate illustrates that systemic problems run rampant in nearly every State. Something must be done!

Thank you again for getting the word out.

"Evil Flourishes When Good Men Do Nothing"
"When the Nazis took over and took the lives of the Jews, I did not say anything, when they took the gypsies, I did not speak, when they came for the Catholics, not a word. When the came for me, there was no one left to speak."
These were the words (or similar) spoken on the radio by a survivor of a concentration camp.
Please let us not be the society that repeats the worst of history instead of upholding good and being the best our country has to offer.
Write your legislators today and tell them to STOP
this evil!!!

I am completely disgusted!!!
What about the law that was supposed to protect the elderly???
Did anyone ever try to find out where the German lady was from before imprisoning her in Ct.?
What is wrong with our society that chooses to view the elderly as a paycheck, pure prey, instead of what they deserve--reverence and respect for their rights and wishes!!!
Thank you Rick Green for once again shedding light on this perverse cottage trade--human life
trafficking!!!

My Mother was separated from this only child. I was told,(my attorney went along with it) that it would be difficult to be guardian becaused I lived out of state. So the court awarded Mother to someone else who lived out of state.

This is racketeering for dollars.

AMERICA? NAZI GERMANY?
Is this how we want to be remembered?
Taking the elderly , bilking them of their life
savings, emotionally abusing them by isolating them, forcing medications to "control" them, and in my opinion,legally euthanizing them.
Can you imagine the horror??
Each and every player involved in this should be held accountable for their actions.
Good men of conscience stand up for the frail and vulnerable, do not let, "Greed be thy guide"!!!

The following is taken from the new probate law which went into effect October 1, 2007. Judge Brandt should have investigated the residency status of Ms Claus, who should have been given an opportunity to return to New York, if not Germany. This case is just another example of the overeagerness of Corrupticut probate courts to annex citizens of other states (and countries), and hold them hostage.
"An application for involuntary representation for a nondomiciliary of the state made pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall not be granted unless the court finds the (1) respondent is presently located in the probate district in which the application is filed; (2) applicant has made reasonable efforts to provide notice to individuals and applicable agencies listed in subsection (a) of section 45a-649, as amended by this act, concerning the respondent; (3) respondent has been provided an opportunity to return to the respondent's place of domicile, and has been provided the financial means to return to the respondent's place of domicile within the respondent's resources, and has declined to return, or the applicant has made reasonable but unsuccessful efforts to return the respondent to such respondent's place of domicile; and (4) requirements of this chapter for the appointment of a conservator pursuant to an application for involuntary representation have been met.
(c) If, after the appointment of a conservator for a nondomiciliary of the state the nondomiciliary becomes domiciled in this state, the provisions of this section regarding involuntary representation of a nondomiciliary shall no longer apply.
(d) The court shall review any involuntary representation of a nondomiciliary ordered by the court pursuant to subsection (b) of this section every sixty days. Such involuntary representation shall expire sixty days after the date such involuntary representation was ordered by the court or sixty days after the most recent review ordered by the court, whichever is later, unless the court finds the (1) conserved person is presently located in the state; (2) conservator has made reasonable efforts to provide notice to individuals and applicable agencies listed in subsection (a) of section 45a-649, as amended by this act, concerning the respondent; (3) conserved person has been provided an opportunity to return to the conserved person's place of domicile and has been provided the financial means to return to the conserved person's place of domicile within the conserved person's resources, and has declined to return, or the conservator has made reasonable but unsuccessful efforts to return the conserved person to the conserved person's place of domicile; and (4) requirements of this chapter for the appointment of a conservator pursuant to an application for involuntary representation have been met. As part of its review under this subsection, the court shall receive and consider reports from the conservator and from the attorney for the conserved person regarding the requirements of this subsection.
The laws are now in place, judges just need to follow them!

Concerned citizens owe huge thanks to people in the media like Rick Green, who realize the dangers of an unbridled probate system. If you are a convict on death row, you will have more civil rights than someone under the "care" of the probate court. The judge is God, and you are a pawn in the game, until your money is gone. Then you are trash tossed to the gutter for the taxpayers to take care of. I know this from personal experience.

I am glad Rick Green has an "agenda" to clean up the probate system and thereby help thousands of potential victims who would fall into the sticky and expensive web of unlawful and abusive conservatorships without his bright light of exposure -- and some good, strong disinfectant.

Thanks again!

Yours,
Elaine Renoire
NASGA
www.StopGuardianAbuse.org & http://NASGA-StopGuardianAbuse.blogspot.com

Lost a Mother wrote:

My Mother was separated from this only child. I was told,(my attorney went along with it) that it would be difficult to be guardian becaused I lived out of state. So the court awarded Mother to someone else who lived out of state.
This is racketeering for dollars.

You used the correct word. There seems to be a pattern.