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Guardianship System Faces Continued Review Across States
More than two dozen states have acted in three years to improve guardianships yet experts say rights of the elderly remain at risk. University formalist John Regan warns that supervision failures undermine any good law. About 500,000 elderly Americans are believed under guardianship, with cases of lack of representation and hidden abuse.
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John Regan
Hofstra University
Associated Press
American Bar Association
Shelda Harden
National Conference of State Legislators
Indiana
Michigan
Oregon
Utah
Washington State
West Virginia
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Rhode Island
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
Colorado
Hawaii
Iowa
Kansas
North Carolina
Illinois
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Georgia
Mississippi
Texas
Congress
Claude Pepper
D-Fla
Marie Mahler
Public Guardian
ABA
House of Delegates
California
Maryland
Nancy Coleman
Commission On Legal Problems