Posted on 05/12/2014 4:06:17 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Looks like we’ll have to lure him out with Scooby Snacks.
This story is about someone who did have a second marriage.
As I read this story, one of his adult children was given temporary guardianship, then came to an accord with the step mother, but now says that accord has been breached, and as of Monday, another adult child was made guardian. So the adult children do have some responsibility in the relationship ... IF they can find him. WIth all the stress of Parkinsons, or any other debilitating disease, the Family Feud isn’t the least bit helpful. Sad all around.
When someone is no longer able to handle his or her own financial or personal affairs, the Court can appoint an individual or professional to act on behalf of the incapacitated person. The legal terminology for these protective proceedings varies state by state. In some states, the term "guardianship" is used for all protective proceedings, whether for a minor or adult.
In others, the term "guardianship" is used to describe a proceeding giving authority over an individual's financial affairs and "conservatorship" is used to describe a proceeding giving authority over an individual’s personal affairs.
Protective Proceedings: Guardianships and Conservatorships
...Yet Congress, national advocacy organizations, and the media have increasingly highlighted the use of guardianships and conservatorships as a means to further exploit older persons. The ease at which guardianships are granted, the lack of court oversight, the questionable qualifications of guardians, the general lack of accountability, soaring caseloads, and poor data management make the guardianship system primed for further abuse, neglect, and exploitation of elders...
...Guardianship laws vary from state to state, with practices varying by court and judge...
Guardianship of the Elderly
Guardianship can differ from state to state. States are trying to fix this with the Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act. Not all have signed on though. So it depends on where the person is residing...
Note: Druze = Coptic Christian
Thanks, oblomov!
That is not true. Druze is a monotheistic small religion begun around 1,000 A.D. based in part on Isma'ilite teachings, Judaism and Christianity. Druze fought on the side of Israel when the 1948 War broke out. Druze serve in the Israel Army and also have served in the Israel Knesset.
Coptic Christians have always been Christian and in short, today are considered Orthodox Christians.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Druze
Last updated January 20, 2014
Druze religious beliefs developed out of Ismaʿīlite teachings. Various Jewish, Christian, Gnostic, Neoplatonic, and Iranian elements, however, are combined under a doctrine of strict monotheism.
Propagation of the tenets of the new religion began in Cairo in ad 1017, led by Ḥamzah ibn ʿAlī,
Druze, also spelled Druse, Arabic plural Durūz, singular Darazi, relatively small Middle Eastern religious sect characterized by an eclectic system of doctrines and by a cohesion and loyalty among its members (at times politically significant) that have enabled them to maintain through almost a thousand years of turbulent history their close-knit identity and distinctive faith. They numbered more than 250,000 in the late 20th century and lived mostly in Lebanon, with smaller communities in Israel and Syria. They call themselves muwaḥḥidūn ("monotheists").
The Druze permit no conversion, either away from or to their religion, and no intermarriage...
Encyclopedia Britannica: Druze
Jewish Virtual Library
Druze in Israel
by Dr. Naim Aridi
The Druze community in Israel is officially recognized as a separate religious entity with its own courts (with jurisdiction in matters of personal status - marriage, divorce, maintenance and adoption) and spiritual leadership. Their culture is Arab and their language Arabic but they opted against mainstream Arab nationalism in 1948 and have since served (first as volunteers, later within the draft system) in the Israel Defense Forces and the Border Police.
Worldwide there are probably about one million Druze living mainly in Syria and Lebanon, with 104,000 in Israel, including about 18,000 in the Golan (which came under Israeli rule in 1967) and several thousands who emigrated to Europe and North and South America.
The Druze community in Israel has a special standing among the country's minority groups, and members of the community have attained high-level positions in the political, public and military spheres.
Jewish Virtual Library: Druze
Knesset.gov.il
Druze Member
Majalli Wahabi
Member of Israel's Knesset
Druze member Majalli Wahabi, after attaining rank of Lt. Colonel in the Israeli Army, later became a member of Israel's Knesset Knesset.gov.il and later also served as the first Druze appointed to be interim President of Israel.
Knesset Terms
Knesset 16: 17.2.2003 - 17.4.2006
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
Member, Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee
Member, Education, Culture, and Sports Committee
Member, Joint Committee for the Defense Budget
Knesset 17: 17.4.2006 - 24.2.2009
Knesset 18: 24.2.2009 - 5.2.2013
Knesset Presidium
Knesset 17: Deputy Speaker of the Knesset
Knesset 18: Deputy Speaker of the Knesset
Majalli Wahabi, Knesset.gov.il
Encyclopedia Britannica
Coptic Orthodox Church
Last Updated 4-23-2013
Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, also called Coptic Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox church and principal Christian church in predominantly Muslim Egypt. The people of Egypt before the Arab conquest in the 7th century identified themselves and their language in Greek as Aigyptios (Arabic qibṭ, Westernized as Copt). When Egyptian Muslims later ceased to call themselves Aigyptioi, the term became the distinctive name of the Christian minority. In the 19th and 20th centuries they began to call themselves Coptic Orthodox in order to distinguish themselves both from Copts who had converted to Roman Catholicism (see also Coptic Catholic Church) and from Eastern Orthodox, who are mostly Greek (see also Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria).
In the 4th and 5th centuries a theological conflict arose between the Copts and the Greek-speaking Romans, or Melchites, in Egypt.
The Council of Chalcedon (451) rejected monophysite doctrine—the belief that Jesus Christ had only a divine, not a human, nature—and affirmed both his divinity and his humanity. The Melchites recognized the outcome of Chalcedon. The Coptic church, however, became one of the several Eastern churches that rejected the Christological language about the two natures of Christ agreed upon at Chalcedon. Yet while the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches denounced these Eastern churches as monophysite heretics, the Coptic church and other pre-Chalcedonian or (since the 20th century) Oriental Orthodox churches adopted a theological position called miaphysitism. Confessing the statement by St. Cyril of Alexandria (c. 375–444) proclaiming the “one incarnate nature of the Word” of God, miaphysites declared that both Christ’s humanity and divinity were equally present through the Incarnation in one single nature (hence the Greek prefix mia, “same”) as the Word made flesh. Rather than denying Christ’s humanity, as they were accused of doing, the Coptic and other miaphysite churches gave both his humanity and his divinity equal presence in the person of Christ.
After the Arab conquest of Egypt in the 7th century, the Copts ceased speaking Greek, and the language barrier added to the controversy. Various attempts at compromise by the Byzantine emperors came to naught. Later, the Arab caliphs, although they tended to favour those who adopted Islam, did not interfere much in the church’s internal affairs. The jizya, the tax levied upon non-Muslims living in an Islamic state, was abolished in the 18th century.
Arabic is now used in the services of the Coptic Orthodox Church for the lessons from the Bible and for many of the variable hymns; only certain short refrains that churchgoing people all understand are not in Arabic. The service books, using the liturgies attributed to St. Mark, St. Cyril of Alexandria, and St. Gregory of Nazianzus, are written in Coptic (the Bohairic dialect of Alexandria), with the Arabic text in parallel columns...
Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria
Interesting. Thanks, bd!
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