Yesterday was meant to be a solid writing day but was sacrificed to administrative tasks, first among them the annual accounting for my Uncle’s estate. This marks the 13th year I’ve had to file a Report of Guardian and Accounting with the Superior Court of Washoe County, Nevada, which exists in my imagination something like Moosham Castle near Salzburg, which was home to the Salzburg witch trials and the attendant torturing and executions.
The system of guardianship, which has evolved several times over the years—and has become only increasingly Inquisition-like in its requirements, is meant to protect people from abuses—and I will stipulate there are plenty of those—but for people like my uncle it is mostly a lubeless administrative hand-job that costs thousands of dollars annually in attorney’s fees. If someone were to design a Moosham-worthy device that caused death slowly and by a thousand cuts it would look a lot like this clunky and costly legal apparatus.
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