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I don't know if it's in this thread or somewhere else that someone posted this link to Robert Melton's recent speech. Here is what that other person linked -- http://www.justiceforfloridaseniors.org/dirty-guardian-tricks.html -- and what it says:

"Dirty Tricks of Guardianships ‚ The Need for Change."
by Robert W. Melton, Chief Auditor, Clerk of the Circuit Court, Pinellas County

Pinellas County Internal Auditor Robert W. Melton recently lectured at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg on: "Dirty Tricks of Guardianships ‚ The Need for Change."

Here are just 10 of the "dirty tricks," as outlined by Pinellas County Internal Auditor Robert W. Melton:

1) Guardian creation of a trust: Remove all oversight by the court as a provision of the trust agreement; guardian becomes trustee; provide that the trustee can do whatever they want at their sole discretion.

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Ya know for a while I thought a lot of Terri's case, Felos agenda was something to do with the feeding tube and that may be a small part of it. I read that some hospices will not take you if you have a feeding tube. They are going to turn them into death terminals.

However, it shook my being the other night and it is very clear imo now what the precedent is.
Here you have it straight from the horse's mouth...

"The guardian has no discretion," said Felos. "It is not the guardian's decision to do this. It must be done because it is the order of this court."
http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2005/3/17/74856.html