In Re: Conservatorship of Lila M. Trout

This appeal involves a conservatorship. When the respondent was eighty-three years old, her sister
died and left the respondent over $200,000. The bulk of the inheritance was placed in an irrevocable
trust for the respondent’s benefit, and the deceased sister’s former attorney was appointed as the trustee. Soon, the respondent began to spend her inheritance at a rapid rate, with much of the spending benefitting her daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend. The respondent then purchased a $200,000 home to live in with her daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend, with the expectation that the $1,800 monthly mortgage would be paid out of the trust.