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Details of the Elder Financial Protection Act
- — February 15, 2008
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The package, as it's constituted, has a lot of elements in it. It allows a third person, a non-victim, to make a criminal complaint against someone. So someone who could be in a position to protect an elderly person could make a criminal complaint. It puts together an elder death investigation team at the county level - that's optional - but it allows the county medical examiners to see a suspicious death and do an investigation, a multi-team investigation.
My part of this package, makes it impossible for an individual to abuses an elderly individual to inherit from that estate. Under current law, unless you kill the person, you can still inherit from their estate, even though you've been stealing from them for years. So, we're trying to close that loophole for abusers.