Guardian steals wife and house

Guardianship given to company who moves wife too far to visit and sell’s house out from under husband of 40 years.

Mike was just trying to do the best for his wife of 40 years. She had dementia and he wanted to put a reverse mortgage on his home to hire more care-givers. The problem was that they had never put the house in his name. He went to one of Seattle’s most honored elder law attorneys for advice. 

Michael Longyear suggested that Mike could put his wife under guardianship and then he would have control of her property, but forgot to tell Mike that after even 7 years even unmarried partners have property rights. The property was his too and a court order could have quickly satisfied the bank. Longyear and assistant Williams charged $25,000 for “helping” Mike.

So Mike applied for guardianship of his wife with a glowing report about how capable he was turned in to the court.  Then everything turned around and Commissioner Nancy Bradburn-Johnson gave guardianship to Puget Sound Guardians after APS agent turned on Mike. This is a typical exploitation technique of guardians. The APS agent writes a report to the court and all hangs on that. Are these agents getting bribes or “bonuses” for writing these misleading reports or are they really that gullible?

The APS agent said Mike was “exploiting his wife.” After 40 years and he wanted to reverse mortgage his house to get her better care? That is hardly exploitation, but a crooked judge doesn’t need much of an excuse to do the wrong thing.

Puget Sound Guardians could have left wife at home and just hired care-givers as Mike was going to do, but they removed wife from home and put her in an assisted living in a different county, miles from Mike when there was one just down the street. Mike doesn’t drive.

Then they petitioned to sell the house out from under Mike. Remember this is all at the wife’ expense. So Mike looses his house and wife of 40 years. Any way to fight this–NO. If Mike chooses to sue the guardians, they will use his wife’s money to buy lawyers who will let the litigation go till they drain both Mike and his wife. It’s a standard technique. One drained they will give Mike’s wife back.

Puget Sound Guardians has many wards-perhaps hundred. They bill the same for most if not all. There are 6 to 8 pages that is turned into the court annually that are the same. The length depending on the number of signatures. Then the billing is in spreadsheet format that is easily reproduced by pressing the print button. They are always proved $3000 per year in  guardianship fees and always bill for nearly twice that. Then here’s the real profit. They hire a lawyer per quarter charging $2000-$3000 per month which doubles the doubled bill- a $3000 a year case goes to $12,000 a year.

Who is the lawyer? Richard Furman, the secretary of Puget Sound Guardians, a non-profit. First they don’t need a lawyer for their standard forms and they are violating the Standard of Practice which states -no self dealing.

Posing as a non-profit makes the company looks like it would be a safe place for your ward, but this is NOT a 501(c)3 Federal Non-profit. This is a state non-profit which means nothing in a state with no income taxes. It means they are supposed to have a board of directors (which they do) and it means that have no shareholder (which they don’t.) A non-profit can make a profit- there is nothing wrong with that. There are several guardianship companies in the state that are listed as non-profit. They “hire” themselves as guardians who are the board of directors and pay them a salary which is controlled by themselves. It’s legal, but unethical.

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  1. Michael Longyear also represented Dorothy Grega and in that case a Chartible trust was set up in 1996 before longyear and in 2007 money was still in (Wire transfer of over 100,000 from Arizona to Kirkland) B of A under the Grega Chartible Trust name with a fiticious EIN number and the trustee was BDO Victoria Serles sp and then the money was removed with new trustee Donna Mae Kirley and an EIN number was reinstated to activated to defend the Grega Children -Chartible Trust lawsuit , The Grega Property was sold, Dorothy was moved to assisted living or nursing home and her number was changed and no one ever accounted for the Million dollar sale of the home in the Guardianship or probate. All the assets of the Chartible and Living Trust (Parking lots, medical office Log House in Redmond and house were never accounted for? The tax returns for the 2004 2005 EIN and Chartible Trust were never ammended and they listed stock that was also fiticious. And in the Arthur Hays case Longyear was the guardian of the Estate of Arthur Hays and one of the attorneys charged 500,000 in legal fees. Unknown what the real attorney fees are to date. Michael Longyear is selling property of Hays LLC as a member and manager of the LLC and he is also the Guardian of estate. So I dont know but it would be great for someone to look into it.. And in the Avis Hamlin Robert Hamlin case Jennifer Bershasky had a meeting with Nancy Bradburn Johnson while the court house was closed during snow in Feb 2012 and they signed order without parties present when the courthouse was closed. Dan Smerken divereted the mail of Avis and Robert Hamlin with out notice and Julie Schisel was his lawyer and now she is in the Arthur Hays case. Dan Smerken removed 125,000 join funds without a court order and it was only returned after an appeal was over. It is good to know that Partners in Care removed money during a tax levy from Dorothy Grega Washington Mutual account and never returned it as it went into an account at US BAnk with only Partners in Care’s name on it and no ward names. The IRS asked if it was done to defeat the levy.

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