Navigating Elder Fraud: Challenges and Legal Trends in Payment Systems — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Elder Financial Exploitation
Inside Maine's AG Office: AG Aaron Frey on Public Service — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Elder Abuse-Financial Exploitation and Fraud
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Legally Qualified: Protecting Against Elder Investment Fraud and Exploitation
How Should We Celebrate Elder Law Month?
On June 9, the governor of Maine approved SP 586, which contains provisions related to how financial institutions can address suspected elder abuse. The legislation permits financial institutions and credit unions to disclose...more
June is Elder Abuse Awareness Month, a time to raise awareness of the growing trend of financial exploitation, which has become one of the most prevalent forms of abuse targeting the senior population. During the 2025...more
California legislators are introducing the first bills in the current biennium. One of these bills, AB 83 (Pacheco), would add an entirely new division to the California Financial Code. This new division would consist of a...more
The Texas Legislature recently enacted a new law that criminalizes the financial abuse of the elderly. This is in response to the increasing financial attacks on the elderly....more
In recent years there has been a spate of legislation and rules passed to protect senior investors. Similarly, observers of FINRA’s and the SEC’s annual priorities will, of course, have noticed both bodies’ inclusion of elder...more
New York recently passed legislation to amend the definition of elder abuse to include identity theft. This is important as an acknowledgement of the seriousness of the problem of identity theft involving the elderly, and the...more
Effective January 1, 2022, plaintiffs in survival actions in California will be able to obtain damages for predeath pain, suffering, or disfigurement. This marks a dramatic change in California law that will likely impact the...more
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sept. 23, 2021, signed Assembly Bill (AB) 1243, a bill which creates a new class of "anti-isolation" restraining orders in the state. These new anti-isolation restraining orders, which go into...more
California trust and estate disputes often involve allegations that a surviving spouse took advantage of a deceased spouse so as to get more of the latter’s assets. Often the “spousal financial abuse” charges are leveled by...more
California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed into law a number of bills that will affect Trust and Estate attorneys, and which are effective as of Jan. 1, 2020. In addition, three new laws make changes to civil discovery...more
On May 19, 2019, the Minnesota Senate passed legislation aimed to provide additional protections for elderly and vulnerable residents in Minnesota. The legislation included two levels of licensure for assisted living to...more
A new federal law is designed to address the growing problem of elder abuse. The law supports efforts to better understand, prevent, and combat both financial and physical elder abuse....more
Tennessee is protecting Grandma! Two pieces of legislation were approved this year: the Elder and Vulnerable Adult Protection Act, which is on its way to Gov. Haslam to be signed into law, and the Elderly and Vulnerable Adult...more
Current law permits a hospital, health system, or medical school to organize and become a member of a medical foundation, which can practice medicine through its employees or agents who are physicians, chiropractors,...more
Effective October 1, 2016 Connecticut will have finally updated its 1965 law governing Powers of Attorney (POA’s). The new law, called the Connecticut Uniform Power of Attorney Act, or “CT UPOAA”, makes many changes that...more