Q: I have a brother that is mentally ill and is being abused by his mom and my dad In Illinois. What can be done?
He was abandoned by his mom and left on the street of California as a small child. He then became ward of the state of California. He was living in a facility in California called Laurel behavioral health his whole life up until the age of 46. That’s when his mom and my dad got the bright idea to go and reclaim parental rights of him and move him out of the facility to her home in Illinois. His mom threw all his medication away without consulting medical professionals. She has forcefully taken him off smoking cigarettes. She neglects him, rejects him, talks bad about him to his face. She leaves him home alone with no supervision. He has gotten indecent exposure citations by the police for masturbating in her front law and the neighbors called the police. He get slapped. He doesn’t have health insurance nor has he been to the doctor since being in her care. She buys him nothing and give him no money. And she is blind. So he has no one taking care of him. What are his rights. I need help
A: If you believe your brother is being abused, you should first call the police and file a police report. His parents have guardianship of him at the moment, but that can be ended by the court that oversees guardianship. If you wish to become his guardian to make decisions for him, you can petition the court to appoint you guardian and to remove his parents as guardian.
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