Category: Legal

Hoarding Issues Leads to Attack in Brookfield Home

Suspect attacks sister when she tries to clean out her basement after issues arise over hoarding and living conditions.

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NBC San Diego: Spx Report on Children of Hoarders

Children of Hoarders: Special Report One group is trying to raise awareness about the lives of kids who have hoarders for parents. Rory Devine reports.

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Toronto landlords call for guidance on hoarder tenants

Move comes in wake of Wellesley Street apartment fire

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Tragic Menlo Park hoarding case leads to questions about city enforcement

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QA with Matt Paxton, host of TV’s ‘Hoarders’

You’re teaching a learned behavior, so a child of a hoarder, when she goes to college, she’s never learned how to put anything away, never learned how to clean her house and doesn’t know how to budget. The kids can’t handle financial responsibilities because they never learned the basic skills of putting things away. And …

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Watch: The Hoarder, the Family & the Help

It takes a village to help a hoarder, and the Lester Family and Orange County Task Force on Hoarding strive to do just that. This video features scenes from Cynthia Lester’s film: http://www.mymothersgardenmovie.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euT0T5GimE0

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Child of hoarder faces quite a task after mother’s death

-Q. As the executor of my mother’s estate, I have found myself in the unenviable spot of cleaning out my mother’s home, as both of my siblings refused to help. This home was no ordinary home, as I’d liken my mother to a hoarder. What expenses, specifically labor expenses, if possible, can be deducted as …

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Nashville woman may lose condo because of hoarding

(04-20) 13:57 PDT Nashville, TENN. (AP) — A Nashville condominium owner likely will be forced out of an upscale high-rise after losing a lawsuit that claimed she was hoarding and living in filth. Read more

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Filial Responsibility: Supporting Your Parents

=In Pennsylvania, nursing home lawyers have started using a little known statute to force adult children to pay the health care costs of their aging parents. The statute is called a filial responsibility law, and is a carryover from 17th century English law. It dates back to colonial times when children were legally required to …

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2/22: Combing Through The Wreckage

Some children of hoarders contract professional cleanup crews that can charge from $5,000 to $20,000 for a full clean. For others, the true treasures of a life—a special pair of ear rings, photographs from long ago—are buried between the layers of non-essential stuff a hoarder hoards.

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