Abstract
In retrospect, it's hard to believe that at first no one in the clinic had ever heard of Hattie, or "HSJ POA,'' as she later came to be known. We simply responded to a telephone call from the Nursing Home Ombudsperson who called us at the request of Hattie's brother Carl. Carl had recently been admitted to a nursing home, only to discover that his life savings had been removed from the bank by his sister Hattie. He had, he recalled, signed a Power of Attorney naming her as his agent. Could that be the problem? Could he revoke the agency? Could he get his money back? What was to become of him? How could his sister take all of his money? All good questions. And so the story began.
Publication Title
Clinical Law Review
Volume
2
Issue
2
First Page
523
Recommended Citation
Suzanne J. Levitt,
The Case of the Benevolent Fiduciary: A Primer for the Unwary,
2
Clinical L. Rev
523
(1996).
Available at:
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/clr/vol2/iss2/7