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OPERATION RESTORE™  /  INITIATIVE

Protect Freedom™

A judge can take everything a person has in a single afternoon.

Guardianship and conservatorship advocacy for seniors and vulnerable adults stripped of their rights by the courts meant to protect them — and for the families locked out while it happens.

THE FIGHT

The quietest way to lose your life

A guardianship or conservatorship can remove every right a person has at once: where they live, who they see, what happens to their money, and what is done to their body. It can be imposed in a brief hearing, sometimes before the person has a lawyer, occasionally before they even know it is happening.

Once it is in place, the estate frequently pays for everything — including the fees of the professionals administering it, and sometimes the fees of the lawyers fighting the family that objects. Accounts get drained by the process itself. Adult children are told they may not visit. People die under orders they never agreed to.

Almost nobody is watching. These proceedings draw no press, generate no public outrage, and are frequently sealed. Protect Freedom advocates for families now because the absence of scrutiny is the whole problem.

HOW WE HELP

Three programs, coming soon

This initiative is coming soon. If you are living this right now, tell us. We're logging cases now so we can reach out as soon as it opens.

COMING SOON

Guardianship Challenge

Funded counsel to contest, modify, or terminate a guardianship, and to restore rights to people who never should have lost them.

COMING SOON

Estate & Fee Accountability

Demanding accountings, challenging fees, and forcing daylight onto what is being spent from a protected person’s estate and why.

COMING SOON

Family Access Advocacy

Restoring visitation and contact for families cut off from a parent or grandparent by an order they had no meaningful chance to contest.

Miss Ruby
INITIATIVE COORDINATOR

Miss Ruby

PROTECT FREEDOM™

With a background in estate management, Miss Ruby works guardianship and conservatorship cases, standing with seniors and vulnerable adults cut off from family while others control their money, property, and decisions. She leads Protect Freedom and is the first call for any family coming to us with a case.

“The parent didn’t move away. They were kept away.”

Tell us what's going on

This initiative is coming soon. If you are living this right now, tell us. We're logging cases now so we can reach out as soon as it opens.

GET SUPPORT

If you need help today

Tell us about your case

Use the Get Help form and pick this initiative. A person will read what you wrote, review your case, and explain how we can help or connect you with someone who can.

Help us stand with more families

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Somebody is losing their rights this afternoon

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An initiative of Operation Restore™ · Stand in the Gap Foundation®