When It Isn't Just Alzheimer's: Cognitive Decline, Undue Influence, and Elder Financial Abuse in California Trust and Civil Litigation

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When It Isn't Just Alzheimer's: Cognitive Decline, Undue Influence, and Elder Fi

The diagnosis on the chart changes, but the scheme rarely does. Alzheimer’s, vascular dementia, alcohol-related decline, post-surgical confusion: each opens the same door for the same exploitation, and the trust litigator who recognizes the pattern can name it from the first phone call. Taught through real California cases, this program walks attorneys from intake through trial with Michael A. Hackard and Matthew D. Davis. Together they show how to build a parallel civil and probate architecture, why the civil filing puts a jury trial on the table, and how to cross-examine the drafting attorney as the percipient witness whose testimony often decides the case.

Matthew Davis
Michael Hackard

Michael A. Hackard

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Hackard Law

Michael A. Hackard is a California trust and estate litigation attorney with fifty years of experience representing families in elder financial abuse and inheritance disputes. He is the author of six books on elder vulnerability and family protection, most recently Stolen Inheritance: How the Vulnerable Lose Their Estates — and What Families Can Do (Elder Legacy Press, June 2026). He has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Ways and Means, and is the recipient of a 2026 Silver Telly Award for Introducing the Sage. AV Preeminent. Super Lawyer. “After thousands of cases, I see the pattern others miss.”

Matthew D. Davis

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Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger

Matthew D. Davis is a partner at Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger, one of California’s leading plaintiff-side trial firms. A 1989 graduate of UC Law SF and the school’s 2024 Alumni of the Year, he has helped recover hundreds of millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements in catastrophic injury, wrongful death, and premises liability cases tried in state and federal court. He has been named to the Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers list every year since 2022. He brings the civil-trial, jury-strategy, and mediation perspective on elder financial abuse litigation.

Credit Hours:

1.00

Specialty Area:

None

Credit Type:

General

Original Air Date:

August 27, 2026

Accredited in:

California

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