Elder Financial Abuse Increases With Social Isolation

Benjamin Long Elder Financial Abuse, Estate Planning

“The unprecedented quarantines to protect against the spread of the novel coronavirus have made many seniors more vulnerable to financial exploitation.” Social isolation, whether because …

Baseball Champion Sues Daughter-in-Law, Denies Having Dementia

Benjamin Long Elder Financial Abuse, Fraud, Power of Attorney

“Orlando Cepeda wants to know where his money went. He also wants to learn what happened to all of his baseball memorabilia, including his 1967 …

Elder Financial Abuse Risk Increasing for Seniors Isolated by Pandemic

Benjamin Long Elder Financial Abuse, Estate Planning

“Each year, senior citizens lose billions of dollars to financial fraud, with the loss to individual victims averaging tens of thousands of dollars.” The extended …

Elder Financial Abuse Fraud Occurs, When No One’s Watching

Benjamin Long Dementia, Elder Financial Abuse, Executor, Fraud, Guardians, IRA, IRS

“Take, for example, the sad and sordid tax case of Mary Ellen Cranmer Nice vs. United States of America, which would not have existed if …