Legal guardianship often feels like a swamp (and that’s how I describe it in my multi-award-winning book Protecting Mama: Surviving the Legal Guardianship Swamp). If guardianship is a swamp, then elder care is a jungle. Is your bank account prepared for the trek? Even wealthy elders see their nest eggs dwindle, sometimes to zero, as they battle chronic diseases or catastrophic accidents.
Do you worry about what might happen to one of your older loved ones, should that person no longer be safe living independently? Well, you should. And you should also take precautions to protect yourself. Particularly if you still have children to consider, you are financially and emotionally vulnerable from both ends of the age spectrum. Do you think that you don’t need protection too? You’d be wrong. Some family members find themselves hauled into court by the institutions that cared for Mom and Dad. Many states allow them to sue for payment from next of kin (and judges will enforce this). See the take-aways inside this book for more information.
What you’ll gain from They’re Coming for Your Elders and Your Inheritance:
- You’ll know why the state often involves itself in “family matters” and some of the ways to prevent this. Courts seem increasingly hostile to families. They’re Coming for Your Elders explains why.
- You’ll be better able to tackle the thorny area of where (and how) a person in need of help might live safely
- You’ll understand the playbook unscrupulous members of the system use to control elders, destroy legacies, and divide families, so you can counter their tactics
- You’ll come away with innovative strategies for heading off trouble that’s already brewing
- You’ll be better able to recognize the early warning signs of impending negative events so that you can prevent them from developing.
Born in New York City, Léonie Rosenstiel has traveled to four conti-nents (if you count Central America). She admits to having spent "a lot of time" in school, earning degrees in fields as diverse as musicology, public health, ministry, and East Asian medicine. Her life journey has also brought her into frequent contact with attorneys, social workers, and healthcare professionals, in large part because she spent long periods as a caregiver for her husband and her mother-nine years each.Léonie regularly teaches and speaks to groups, and she coaches and consults with individuals and families. She has interviewed attorneys, judges, 'professional' guardians, and caregivers to discover both the problems and the possible solutions to the difficulties people have when confronting family issues.Her Amazon bestselling book Protecting Mama: Surviving the Legal Guardianship Swarm, has won more than fifty literary awards. As of this writing, her book Legal Protection: Affordable Options for Individuals, Families, and Small Businesses has been on the Amazon bestseller list in its category since January 5, 2024, and has won another four. She also created the Dayspring Empowerment Summit and the Dayspring Empowerment Course. She is a frequent panelist and a popular podcast guest. To contact her, email: leonie@dayspringresources.com. Visit her website at https: //DayspringResources.com.
Jack Canfield is the co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul(R) Series
