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...will not be allowed back in, says Darrell Azar of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (TDFPS). On April 17, a district judge will respond to the state's request to extend the temporary custody for all 416 children. "We are going to ask to maintain temporary conservatorship for the foreseeable future until we conclude the investigation," said TDFPS spokesman Darrell Azar. Each child will be given legal representation, said Scott McCown, a former district judge who now heads the Center for Public Policy Priorities, an Austin think tank that has been critical of state funding for social...
...powers of attorney for health and wealth, to spell out who should take over when they have lost capacity. Many would prefer to have others take charge of their affairs a little at a time as needed, rather than all at once. That's the intent of the customized conservatorship that Hankin designs for clients--facilitated by the terms of a pioneering state law that he helped craft...
...most states don't have laws as sophisticated as California's. And even in that state, anyone trying to protect his interests through a conservatorship must place great trust in the conservators whom he names--and in an unknown judge who will be assigned to oversee the conservators, and who often will rely on the testimony of doctors. Everyone involved faces difficult judgments about when someone is "losing it" and exactly how much of "it" he has lost...
...Garamendi announced that his agents were seizing control of Executive Life, attorneys for his department were securing an order in superior court enabling him to place the insurer in a state-controlled conservatorship. Across town, at the modern glass-and-steel headquarters tower of the insurer's parent company, First Executive, Garamendi's agents informed chief executive Fred Carr that he no longer headed the Executive Life subsidiary. Addressing himself "to the schoolteachers and hardhats, secretaries and doctors" who are the insurer's customers, Garamendi pledged, "We are going to do everything in our power to see that your money...
Cooperative Capitals. Responding to McLin's prodding, the Florida legislature has amended the state conservatorship law to allow P.O.W. and M.I.A. wives the power of attorney to sell property. For values under $5,000, the wife need only submit written notice to a judge for routine review. For amounts over $5,000, the legislature granted similar rights but authorized the state circuit court to supervise the proceedings in detail. That way the husband's interests would be protected in major transactions, such as the sale of a house...