Sentences with phrase «financial abuse statute»

He received a Certificate of Recognition from the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County for protecting the rights of a senior citizen under the California elder financial abuse statute in a pro bono litigation.

And many states that do not currently have civil elder financial abuse statutes or regulations are considering bills or proposals to add them.

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A number of states even specify in their statutes that financial inability to take care of a child does not constitute abuse.

Control of the Senate, too, would ease the way for Democratic bills currently blocked by the GOP, including ones to increase firearm restrictions, allow early voting, authorize state financial aid to students who entered the country illegally as children, and extend the statute of limitations on child molestation to allow victims to sue for decades - old abuse.

This legalized financial elder abuse is the result of a New York guardianship statute dating back to 1993, called Article 81.