The ABA Commission on Law and Aging has added several new resources to its Guardianship Jurisdiction Web page. These resources include:

(1) An article, "Nine Ways to Reduce Elder Abuse Through Enactment of the Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act," that addresses granny-snatching, among other issues;

(2) Three charts on "Reported Cases on Multistate Guardianship Jurisdiction Issues Supporting Need for the Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act" ; and

(3) Three charts on "Multi-State Guardianship Jurisdiction Stories Supporting Need for the Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act."

Each set of charts provides the same information but is sorted in three ways - by issue, first state involved, and second state involved - for ease of use. If you only want to see the cases and stories for your state, you will want to look at the charts as sorted by first state involved and second state involved. The case charts also indicate in which state the court case was heard.

You can find these new resources and other information about the Commission's Joint Campaign for Uniform Guardianship Jurisdiction and its continuing interest in collecting stories about multi-state guardianship problems on the following Web page: http://www.abanet.org/aging/guardianshipjurisdiction/home.html.

We are planning a Webcast on the Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act. We will publicize it as soon as the details are set.

Lori

Lori A. Stiegel

Senior Attorney

ABA Commission on Law & Aging

740 15th Street NW

Washington, DC 20005-1022

(P) 202-662-8692

(F) 202-662-8698

lstiegel@staff.abanet.org

www.abanet.org/aging