California legislature moves towards better regulation of conservators
According to the Los Angeles Times:
The California Assembly Judiciary Committee on Tuesday approved an ambitious proposal to strengthen oversight of professional conservators who manage the lives and finances of adults unable to care for themselves.
The legislation may face stiffer resistance next week, when the Appropriations Committee is planning to consider the cost of reforming the state’s troubled system for protecting incapacitated adults.
Sponsored by the Judiciary Committee’s chairman, Dave Jones (D-Sacramento), the bill would license and audit professional conservators, increase court supervision of their work and set up an ombudsman program to investigate conservatorship-related complaints.
“The system is failing the people it was set up to protect,” he said. “These problems could well increase exponentially as the baby boomers age.”