On behalf of the Conference of Chief Justices (CCJ) and
Conference of State Court Administrators (COSCA) Joint Task Force on Elders and the Courts, the National Center for State Courts carried out an online survey focusing on adult guardianship. The survey was carried out late 2009, and received 187 responses from judges, judicial officials, and court managers from 36 state jurisdictions.
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On June 15, 
Developing a short concise document turns out to be more time-consuming and arduous than developing a lengthy treatise. But after several years of development, the 
Legendary New York philanthropist Brooke Astor died at the age of 105 in August, 2007. On October 8, 2009, a jury pronounced a “guilty” verdict against the two men who had been entrusted with her financial well-being: son Anthony Marshall and estate attorney Francis X. Morrissey, Jr. Mr. Marshall was found guilty on 14 of 16 counts and Mr. Morrissey was convicted on counts of fraud, conspiracy, and forgery. 
In 1988, following the release of the historic 1987 Associated Press report on Guardianship of the Elderly: An Ailing System, the American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging and Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law sponsored a landmark multidisciplinary guardianship symposium at the Wingspread conference facility in Wisconsin.