Woman files complaint against judge (TN)

August 12, 2011
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NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) – A Hendersonville woman who fought for more than two years to get her freedom from a guardianship has filed a complaint against the judge who handled her case.

Ginger Franklin’s life started falling apart after she fell down the stairs in her condo in July 2008.

The fall gave her a temporary brain injury. Judge Randy Kennedy appointed a conservator to handle her affairs until she got better.

She was surprised to discover later that the conservator had moved quickly to liquidate what she owned.

“Six weeks after I fell, my house was up for sale,” Franklin said.

Franklin fought for two years to get out from under the conservatorship, saying she’d recovered. In that time the conservator had liquidated nearly everything Franklin had: her savings, her car, her house and furniture.

“My credit is ruined from where they filed bankruptcy. I’m having to start all over from scratch. Because I fell down the stairs,” Franklin said.

Franklin has filed a complaint with the Tennessee Court of the Judiciary, claiming Judge Kennedy mishandled her case.

As an example, she said Kennedy refused to dissolve the conservatorship even though her neurosurgeon had said a year earlier she was fine and could return to work.

“These people are used to doing whatever they want and not being questioned,” Franklin said.

But now, the Tennessee Court of the Judiciary is investigating. If they find the judge has done something wrong, he could be reprimanded.

Judge Kennedy responded to the panel with a five-page letter. He called Franklin’s complaints “totally baseless.”

The judge wrote that while one doctor said she was fine, two other doctors said previously that she needed a conservatorship. The judge asked the panel to dismiss her claim. He declined to speak to Channel 4.

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Woman files complaint against judge
Nancy Amons
August 3, 2011
WSMV.com
http://www.wsmv.com/story/15205936/woman-files-complaint-against-judge

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  • Texas probate victim

    Its a national disgrace that judges who wreck such havoc are faced with only a “maybe” reprimand. These probate judges who are allowing looting and plundering of estates, and facilitating the destruction of lives of the elderly and disabled and their friends and families ought to be impeached and jailed. This is criminal. They are not serving the community but the guardianship cartel they run and political machines that keep them in office. There is no oversight to curtail abuse and injustice at this level.

  • admin

    In Texas (and other states) there are people working to address what you note. Just because action isn’t visible doesn’t mean things aren’t in motion.

  • Stphillips

    Judge Randy Kennedy started a conservatorship on my father with a fradulent doctor’s form. My father had Alzheimers and had all of his legal paperwork in order to protect himself. He had a Durable Power of Attorney, covering both finances and healthcare. My father was in one of the best assisted living facilities in Nashville and was happy and healthy. Judge Randy Kennedy along with his appointed guardian and conservator “raped” my father’s estate and brought down his business and moved my father to a cheap facility where he died. The judge then threw out his will. I watched this man in action break the law and make up his own, and when he thought I wouldn’t submit he threw me in jail to get back at me. I have never broken the law. He needs to be stopped. He caused me to lose my father, my savings, my inheritance. I now have nothing thanks to this Judge. I will fight to get this story told.