A commotion in Minato Ward exposes guardians withholding real estate and savings details from heirs, sparking concerns over elderly rights.
1@Old Man Friends Club ★.Nov. 28, 2024 (Thu) 20:09:30.36ID:mFHkKka09
On June 17th of this year, a small commotion occurred in front of Takanawa Police Station of the Metropolitan Police Department in Minato Ward, Tokyo. An elderly woman with white hair yelled out as she desperately grabbed the handle of a senior citizen cart with both hands. “Just because you’re a guardian doesn’t mean you can do whatever you want!” The anger is directed at the female lawyer standing on the right. The lawyer is the guardian of an elderly woman. Adult guardians are responsible for managing assets and providing daily living support on behalf of people who have significantly lost the ability to make decisions due to dementia or other reasons. It can handle all aspects of daily life, from withdrawing cash from a bank account to signing up for nursing care services. For this reason, there must be a strong relationship of trust between the ward receiving the service and the adult guardian. However, there seemed to be no trust between the two, and the atmosphere was tense from the outside. What on earth happened in front of the police station? The second part of the series investigating the “abduction of elderly people by local governments” is set in Minato Ward, Tokyo, following the previous part. This is a different incident from the one reported initially. The incident in front of Takanawa Police Station occurred four days before the rainy season began, and Tokyo had been under light clouds since the morning. The commotion happened this afternoon. When Harue Yamano (not her real name), an elderly woman in her 70s, began shouting at her lawyer, who was her legal guardian, she was surrounded by around 20 police officers and the area in front of the police station was temporarily thrown into chaos. [Omitted] The guardian’s lawyer grabbed Harue by the shoulders, who was yelling and resisting, and tried to take her away somewhere else. In response, Harue and Suzuki protested, saying, “Don’t do that!”, but the guardian’s lawyer coldly replied without changing his expression: “I’m the guardian.” The commotion in front of the police station reportedly lasted for nearly an hour. Eventually, the police officers forced Harue into a car belonging to the elderly care facility and forcibly took her to the facility. The incident was captured on video. Looking back, the last words Harue shouted as she was being pushed into the car, mustering all the strength from her small body, were “Stop it! Seriously!” Her niece, Suzuki, can never forget that scene. [Omitted] ● Guardian obsessed with real estate owned by elderly people Continue reading slow news 2024/11/28 11:45.
>>1 The guardianship system is a law based on the assumption that lawyers are good people, but lawyers are just good at the law and represent people in court, they’re not good people at all. If there are legal heirs, the law should be changed to allow them to become guardians. The lawyer’s role should be to monitor the guardian.
So there’s a criminal group using the name of guardianship? There aren’t many good lawyers, and you can’t trust them just because they’re professionals.
>>9 However, it’s often the relatives who are the guardians of the senile person who do these kinds of bad things. Amateurs will inevitably succumb to the temptation of money in the wallet of a senile person and be unable to distinguish it from their own. It’s not impossible for a professional like a judicial scrivener to do it, but even if they do that, they’ll inevitably get found out in the end and their life will be ruined \(^o^)/, so I don’t do it unless I’m in debt or something.
>>9 Something like that happened in a public hospital in the backstreets of Japan a while back. An elderly man who was hospitalized with dementia had his assets donated to the hospital for some reason.
Koreans and Chinese have a strong presence in the guardianship business. The police are turning a blind eye, and there are collaborators within the government, so there’s nothing that can be done about this.
I don’t want to become senile. If that’s the case, do we have no choice but to choose the fear of dying from cancer or heart failure? I don’t want to get old.
The adult guardianship system has already been exposed as a nefarious system, and those who fall victim to it will have to put up with it until the problem gets bigger and it is reformed.
>>17 > The adult guardianship system is already known to be a terrible system There are people who make assumptions based on online reputations like this, but it’s a case-by-case basis. If you want to have it managed by relatives, you can choose voluntary guardianship rather than using the adult guardianship system.
Just as bad as this was the dramatic change in the law that meant that third-party management of condominium management associations meant that owners could no longer do anything.
>>28 The adult guardianship system requires a diagnosis to be submitted to the family court proving that the person is senile, so there’s no doubt that he is senile. If the ward is doing it, there’s no way the diagnosis results would be fabricated.
This successor system is not well known, but I read an article about a man who had multiple successors who were arrested for embezzling money shortly after it started. It’s a system full of holes, but it’s mandatory.
Lawyers have no qualms about helping criminals, and it has recently been revealed that although there has been evidence for the past 20 years of Kurdish migrant workers, the Japan Federation of Bar Associations has silenced them, citing discrimination.
>>45 People who don’t know how to write a will will turn to self-proclaimed experts and have their assets stolen. If you transfer it to this account, you won’t have to pay inheritance tax. When you need the money in the future, you can transfer it back to your original account with just one phone call. (grins).
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