How a Financial Trust Company and a Bunch of Intellectually- and Morally-Lazy Lawyers Caused My Family to End Up in Unending Financial and Physical DANGER What happens when educated people—lawyers, in particular—don’t listen carefully or ask questions to check their own (mis-)understanding of something? Can great harm result due to ‘educated professionals’ thinking they’re so damned smart and/or moral about something when they’re not? “Communicate with the beneficiaries—information should be both incoming and outgoing… Regular communication with beneficiaries can prevent many disagreements between beneficiaries and trustees.” from “The Changing Role of Trustee & Trustee Liability: Who’s Afraid of the Big Black Swan?” (March 10, 2009) by Kathryn H. Smith. A trust that should have lasted me over 20 years is on the verge of becoming insolvent after six, leaving my family’s safety, security, and survival in peril. Before, I worried about having enough myself to pay for a lif...
How I Determined My Late Father Was a Malignant Narcissist (see earlier post below about testamentary capacity!)
RCN’s NPD In Malignant Self Love: Narcissism Revisited , author Sam Vaknin (a self-aware narcissist) writes: “The reason narcissism is underreported and healing overstated is that therapists are being fooled by smart narcissists. Most narcissists are expert manipulators and they learn how to deceive their therapists” (p 235). If therapists are being fooled, it is very likely estate and family law attorneys are also being fooled. I see the present time as a learning curve for both the law and the general public regarding Narcissistic Personality Disorder in the same way the mid-1980s taught us about anorexia nervosa after the death of singer Karen Carpenter. In fact, i n my research on NPD and cases of testamentary and financial capacity, I have found recent mentions of NPD as a significant, deciding factor in estate/trust litigation. Here are two links to a Canadian law firm website which mentions cases wherein NPD is a key issue in a case. hullandhull.com/tag/undue-influence/ ...