My Son Served Me Dog Food at My 70th Birthday and Called Me a Freeloader—Then I Found Out Who Had Really Been Paying for His House
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Chapter 21 - The civil suit
I filed a narrow civil claim against:
Melissa.
Melissa Grant Home Services LLC.
Claims included:
Breach of payment authorization.
Unjust enrichment.
Deceptive billing.
Accounting.
Not:
Elder abuse automatically.
My age alone did not make every family money dispute elder exploitation.
My lawyer reviewed whether elder-financial-abuse statutes applied.
Some elements might.
But I was:
Competent.
Financially independent.
Not under Melissa’s guardianship.
Not cognitively impaired.
No need to exaggerate.
The core case was strong enough as billing dispute.
Melissa counterclaimed:
Unpaid concierge services.
Household benefits.
May you like
Room-and-board value.
At last we would put numbers against numbers.
