COURANT- Call To Action on Probate Abuses

[Mort Zuckerman]

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Subject: COURANT- Call To Action on Probate Abuses

Date: Nov 13, 2008 5:15 AM

Organizing a proper protest and a March on Hartford with lots of
international news
agency coverage is called for.

Embarrass the State of CT. I find making a racket is the most
effective treatment
for this cancer of hypocrisy, cannibalism, State-sanctioned abuse, and
criminality
that *is* the State of Corrupticut.

Bring in Reuters, the Associated Press, the International Herald
Tribune and especially,
the Guardian (UK). The Guardian has already covered DCF-Rowlandgate
(the slut Ragaglia).

Raise Holy Hell and never let up. It happens to be our obligation as
the people
as the government.

Everyone needs to take a close look at what else goes on in the
Corrupticourts:
http://www.actionlyme.org/VIKING_INTERVIEWS.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/KAPLAN_IRISH_PEOPLE_BAD.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/andersonpenisbiter.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/dictionary_of_connecticutisms.htm

Don't even THINK of driving through Corrupticut, if you can avoid it.
We have
billboards along I-95 with mean-asshole-looking State troopers saying
they're
gonna *GET* YA!!

Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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More Probate Excess
Held In Connecticut • A Michigan woman just wants to go home

November 13, 2008

Some of the courts in Connecticut's antiquated probate court system
are out
of control. They all need reforming, now.

The latest outrage was described Tuesday in a column by The Courant's
Rick Green.
Marilyn Plank, 85, a lifelong resident of Michigan, was flown to
Connecticut by
two sisters fighting with other siblings over her assets. The fragile
woman thought
she was going to visit a granddaughter in California. She ended up in
Greenwich.
She thought she was going to a hotel, but was taken to an assisted
living facility.
Within days, Greenwich Probate Judge David Hopper appointed one of the
two daughters
as temporary "conservator of the person." Mrs. Plank lost her civil
rights
and control of her assets.

A lawyer for three other daughters insists the court has no
jurisdiction because
Mrs. Plank is not a Connecticut resident. Judge Hopper has resisted
all entreaties
to change his mind.

Mrs. Plank wants to go home. Her permanent conservator, Richard J.
Margenot, wrote
in a brief earlier this year, "Not only does the evidence support a
return
to Michigan, it is in her best interest that she do so." Meanwhile,
her assets
are being drained by the expensive care in Greenwich — about $9,000
per month —
and the high fees of numerous lawyers. "Every day spent in Connecticut
puts
Mrs. Plank deeper into financial chaos," says Mr. Margenot.

This is an outrageous injustice.

Can't somebody do something to help her? Judge Paul Knierim,
administrator of
the probate courts? Attorney General Richard Blumenthal? The Superior
Court? The
General Assembly? Anybody?

It may be a stretch, but it seems to us that Mrs. Plank is getting the
Guantanamo
treatment.