Legal Question in Elder Law in Louisiana

I am a 74 yr old lady married to a 76 yr old man who has been taken by the doctors office,Sheriff's office and the coroner's office to a Mental or Behavior center for his actions.One action was to pull a loaded pistol on 3 carloads of deputies.They took him to a mental facility instead of jail.He has verbally and emotionally abused me,Threatened me with physical harm but yet each place he has been evaluated says"we can't find anything wrong with him".He says he can't "remember things" and refuses to take any meds.I have no place to go and he refuses to leave.I don't drive anymore because of a massive heart attack plus very bad arthritis in my joints.He abandoned me in April with NO funds for me and in 2 months he showed back up and started screaming at me "to get out"because "this is community property".He has been confined in 6 facilities for his actions but its always the same answer.Nothing wrong with him.I am so stressed out and scared of him that I've had chest pains.The battered womens program(I put him under a restraining order)and the judge did not see any of us ladies but I did get a bill from Iberville Clerk of Court for 180.00 but for what?My finances will not permit me to get a place of my own .My income is 686.00 S.S. and his is 1274.00 but he says thats his money.Please help me.Someone (?) called Elderly protection Agency and she came out here and talked to me and my 52 yr old disabled son(has pacemaker and defibulater(4 heart attacks)plus she said she had talked to the sheriff"s office(one deputy had responded to my calls for help 3 times himself)and he said she had never called their office as it would have been documented.She called me and told me I was lying about my husband.He has been in 2 mental facilities since she came out here.Her name is Ms.Jackson in Baton Rouge.My son lives next door.My husband needs to be in a nursing home because he refuses to take his meds,does not bathe and if I fix him a plant and sat it before him,he will eat but otherwise he won't.I am so tired and heart-sick.Thanks for listening to me.


Asked on 9/01/12, 3:50 pm

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James Maguire James G. Maguire, Attorney At Law

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Answered on 9/03/12, 8:34 am


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