The Los Angeles Times reported this week that the Members of the Senate Special Committee on Aging are pushing for action to improve how adult guardianships are monitored.
Along with mandatory quality standards for guardians, the Senate Special Committee wants an infusion of federal funds to better support local court supervision programs and to establish nationwide data collection procedures on guardianship cases.
Also this week, the AARP and American Bar Association also released a blueprint for creating monitoring programs that work. This blueprint model studied six programs from Tarrant County, Texas to Broward County, Florida that have developed exceptionally effective monitoring programs on adult guardianships.
California has a long way to go in implementing programs that effectively monitor adult guardianships. Thanks to high profile cases such as the arrest of the son of the late New York socialite Brooke Astor, the media as well as the public is calling for the court system to enforce that conservators and guardians act in the wards' best interest.
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