Between a rock and a hard place

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Tom
Posted 8/26/2008 2:18:11 PM
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I am the owner of a small tree care co located in Massachusetts. Twenty three years ago a couple living near by supported my company for the first three years of my new business. As time went by I did little work for them as a nephew from abroad moved in with them. Eight year ago they stopped all contact until this Spring. She asked me if I could work at there cottage which is a very nice place on a pond. They had not been there for seven years, it needed much work. Then she asked me to look at their main house. The lawn was three feet high, she came outside and I asked her what was going on. She told me that her husband was bed ridden and that she had cancer. She told me she had no one in America and could I help her.
It started by mowing lawn which lead to getting groceries, taking them to doctor visits,etc. She informed me on the first day we met at her house that the nephew married and moved to europe. She informed me of her husbands son from a previous marriage several states away which I never new he had. The son came to Ma shortly after I started helping and told her everything in the cottage was junk and needed to go into a dumpster. It has been over two months and he has not been back or called them. Now she has asked me about becoming her guardian. I talked with my attorney that wrote my will and he thinks its a perfect set up for a law suite. He said that even if they leave me nothing in their will that because she has given me many checks the son or another relative could accuse me of stealing.
This couple really needs the help, they refuse public help programs because they are proud and there is a slight language barrier. Everyone I talk with tells me I need a third party to get involved with their finances. But no one can tell me who that should be. Any advise would be appreciated.
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Harry S. Margolis
Posted 9/2/2008 11:32:32 AM
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Tom,

Your friends need their own elder law attorney, the sooner the better.  You can go to the ElderLawAnswers site to choose one or call our number at 617-267-9700.

Harry S. Margolis

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