Step back in time a few years - California's new law on the definition for undue influence and financial elder abuse is not yet in place - and California courts, attorneys, plaintiffs and defendants operate with an undue influence definition that dates from 1872 unchanged. Los Angeles area families fighting to protect family members from elder financial abuse lack important tools to bring wrongdoers to justice. <br />In January 2014, a law became effective that incorporates up-to-date scientific knowledge in crafting California's significant overhaul of the definition of undue influence. The law now provides that undue influence is "excessive persuasion that causes another person to act or refrain from acting by overcoming that person's free will and results in inequity." Such inequity may include the "economic consequences to the victim" and "any divergence from the victim's prior intent or course of conduct or dealing." <br /> <br />Read more: http://www.hackardlaw.com/blog/2017/05/homes-are-high-stakes-in-los-angeles-trust-estate-litigation.shtml
