Posted on 05/07/2019 9:31:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
“They killed him,” Marvin Siegel’s daughter Lisa Siegel Belanger wrote in a text. She followed up to explain that six years of round-the-clock captivity in his own home and in various medical facilities, together with forced drugging and morphine, lack of proper care and the ability for his family to interact with him and help with decisions, accelerated her father’s death.
As we previously reported in this paper through a multi-part series of articles, including a personal account by Lisa, six years ago her father was taken from his Boxford, Mass. home via ambulance at the direction of a visiting nurse, and was shortly thereafter placed in a psychiatric facility, forced on drugs, and then, while in the facility, signed over control of his estate to what Lisa detailed as predatory lawyers. That list of “predators” is long, and despite many trips to court to fight them, the lawyers continued to prevail.
Yes, Sometimes It IS All About the Money
At the time of his taking, Mr. Siegel’s known assets exceeded $6 million. During the past six years, attorneys drew off more than $4 million in what they termed as caring for the senior. A large chunk of that money was spent on round-the-clock home health care. But the numbers included more, much more.
Indeed, a review of the finances showed certain attorneys drawing tens of thousands of dollars and more, quarterly from the estate, with some racking up more than $200,000 in billing, and at attorney rates over a wide range, including some at more than $450 per hour.
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Easy access to a large amount of money can change anyone.
Some people retain their sense of morality, while others become cunning, ruthless and full on a-moral, where anything can be rationalized, so long as the money stream keeps on flowing. Nothing on this scale of a six million dollar estate, but I have seen in my own family what a sudden windfall of inherited cash can do to the surviving siblings.
Not always, my Mom died jan 1 this year and here 4 months later none of us that I know has asked to even look at the will. My Mom spent practically all her assets for her and my father’s nursing home care. At the present my younger sister lives and has lived in Mom’s house for about 35 years. She recently came down with cancer and I would but up a huge protest if my oldest sister was trying to force her to sell the house. I never expected anything from my parents, nor ever received anything except their love and that is good enough for me.
Agree with what you said Lee.
What also terrifying is how easily a short stay in psych can turn into a YEAR for the wrong reasons.
I did a few psych stints after a brain injury and one guy was in the for a YEAR for depression...turns out he had Alzheimer’s!!
And even then it was hard to get him out!!
So if you REALLY want a loved one to stay in, it ain’t so hard.
But what children usually do is get the parents to sign over the house, wait the allotted time so that the nursing homes can’t touch the house sale money, and then throw them in a nursing home through power of attorney.
Just heartbreaking.
People I thought I really knew have done it.
It sounds like you come from a good family with solid values.
Sorry about your Mom. I lost my mother in the early 1990’s. Even still, every so often I have to remind myself that she’s not here anymore to call long distance from California to Michigan as I used to do.
There remains a great deal science still doesn’t know about the human brain. Why an injury effects one man in a certain way and the next man, barely at all.
We are just beginning to ponder how one’s attitude or expectation can effect their condition.
Some folks don’t ever expect to ‘get well’ after severe injury and an upheaval of their life’s routines. These folks often live in the past. Their present spirit atrophies and withers.
Others are ready to accept a ‘new normal’ and keep on driving through their life’s plan, finding new ways to do the old tasks.
Get a severe head injury and get back to me :)
I am currently helping a friend of mine fight off his sister’s daughter who is determined to take her mother’s property and put Mom away someplace. The kicker is that the property is a trailer on a quarter acre lot and a small bank account with mom’s 2000 dollars savings in it. We have managed to get a Power of attorney reversed and are going for a court order to keep daughter away from her mother. It is nuts. There is just not that much there. If the entire estate were to be sold the kid could maybe buy a new mid priced car. I have seen this sort of thing with two relatives of my own in the past with actually substantial assets involved. The kid wants her/his inheritance NOW and doesn’t want to wait until the parent dies. It is a variation on the Prodigal Son story of sorts.
Wow.
I’ve just never heard of it for so little.
For what she could make in a year at a PART TIME job she is willing to do that?
That’s a shame. I am glad you are helping your friend and his sister.
I think my mom has 50k in the bank lol. There’s 5 kids.
She sold her condo years ago and is 86.
Her Italian cooking is worth more than the lousy 10k each :)
But my family on my father’s side HAS been torn apart by a MILLION dollar house that was supposed to be divided among my father and his siblings. Only pop died 37 years ago and the ORAL promise to give my mom her share was just that. ORAL.
I don’t know how my father’s brothers and sisters will face him when they die.
A couple years later, we called to let them know he was dying, no visit or call back. When he died, they called to say they couldn't afford to bury him. We told them he had enough for a cremation and small service. (He had $1800 in the account)
We called the funeral home for him to be picked up. The family made it just as they were leaving. They demanded that money. Oops, too late, the check was cut. Then his son and brother fought over the suit. (Neither one got it.) The incredible squabbles families get into over money disgusting.
That may be one of the most disturbing stories I’ve heard about greed when it comes to the elderly and folks in nursing homes.
And God Bless You for working in a nursing home.
Folks like you take great care of my uncle who probably has, well I don’t know, tomorrow? next month? next year?
Leukemia that is moving at its own odd, slow pace.
But he’s down to under 100 pounds and I guess you know better than anyone that that’s towards the end.
They take care of him great there.
It’s the best place on staten island.
You folks that are the good ones are saints.
And lawyers wonder why they’re as despised as they are.
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