The victims of OC probate are mad as hell, and they aren't going to take it anymore

The loved ones of probate court victims gathered today on the steps of the courthouse in Orange County, California.

Victims of Orange County’s probate system gather to protest on May 18, 2023

The families of probate court victims in Orange County, California are mad as hell and they aren’t going to take it anymore.

They have a lot to be mad about: mainly loved ones isolated, pilfered, drugged, and maybe even killed.

Just listen to Woodrow Shirley.

“I kept my mother for twenty years and not on any medication. They took my mother out of my house and in ninety days they killed.” He said.

His mom had a few rental properties that probate court vultures wanted; they took control of her estate, she died and the properties were sold.

The family of another victim with a sign identifying the perpetrators. Those include Judge Ebrahim Batyieh and Samantha Moris Jones. Both are currently on Jodee Sussman’s case: Jodee also spoke.

Here is Rita King. King’s father remains in a conservatorship- what California refers to as guardianship- and that’s peculiar since his conservatorship is and always was “temporary”. This “temporary” conservatorship is in its fifth year.

Woody Shirley holds a sign identifying his mom’s perpetrators. They include Theresa Gorman and her husband Ruben Martinez. Gorman becomes a conservator and then gets her husband appointed to sell property.

Primarily, it is our elderly who are caught up in probate abuse, but sometimes it also happens to our young and healthy- like Brittney Spears.

In Orange County, that’s also the case. I previously interviewed Ilya Tseglin whose son got abused by this system.

Here is Deborah Donathan, whose special needs son, JJ, has also been caught up.

Another sign identifying the victims and the perpetrators

This docket entry from inside the Orange County courthouse suggests that elder abuse is rather common in that area

Here is Lori Schiller talking about how her mom was isolated from her and her family.

Check out my interview from last year with Lori.

Lori, Jodee, and others holding up signs

There is no shortage of probate victims and perpetrators in Orange County

There is a ring- a cabal or even a racket- in Orange County probate. It’s made up of judges, lawyers, doctors, and real estate professionals. Their job is ostensibly to care for the ward- the one put into conservatorship- and to make conservatorship as non-intrusive as possible. Their actual roles are to plunder the estate, drag these cases out so that as many people as possible can make money, while isolating and even killing those they are duty bound to protect.

This ring includes judges like David Belz and Ebrahim Baytieh: lawyers like David Shaver, Eric Becker, Samantha Morris-Jones, and Fred Muscarella.

It also includes Theresa Gorman and her husband Ruben Martinez.

Gorman and her husband Martinez run Fiduciary Real Estate Services. Gorman is assigned to a case and then gets her husband to handle the real estate. This blatant conflict of interest is usually overlooked.

They have ruled through fear, intimidation, and influence for years, but the victims are taking the power back.

Check out the video by Wayne Dolcefino about Orange County probate.

Postscript:

Check out the previous articles on the series on Orange County. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8. Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17, Part 18, Part 19, Part 20, Part 21, Part 22, Part 23, Part 24, Part 25. Part 26, Part 27, Part 28, Part 29, Part 30, Part 31, Part 33, and Part 34.

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