UPDATE: During a court hearing held Monday, Feb. 1, a judge approved Tom Girardi‘s household’s demand to put him under a conservatorship. Tom’s sibling, Robert “Bob” Girardi, was designated momentary conservator and offered the “power to contract” on his behalf.
Tom, who was not present for the hearing due to what the judge referred to as “medical inability,” will stay under the conservatorship through March 30, 2021.
An lawyer for Tom’s sibling informed E! News in a declaration, “There was an urgent need for Bob Girardi to have the power to engage counsel in the bankruptcy proceeding on his brother’s behalf, and Tom’s court-appointed counsel clearly agreed, as did the Court today.”
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Erika Jayne‘s separated partner Tom Girardi is not able to look after himself or his financial resources on his own due to a cognitive condition, according to his sibling Robert “Bob” Girardi, who has actually submitted legal documents to demand that a short-lived conservator be designated to manage his individual and monetary affairs.
Tom, 81, has actually not responded openly to his brother or sister’s filing, made at a Los Angeles court on Tuesday, Jan. 19. Erika, 49, who remains in the middle of procedures to divorce her ex and is likewise called in an embezzlement claim submitted versus him, has actually likewise not made any public remarks. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star’s associate had no remark when reached by E! News.
In his filing, Robert preserves that his sibling’s “current condition has sadly deteriorated to the point where he cannot care for himself without assistance” which “his short-term memory is severely compromised and, on information and belief, he is often not oriented as to date, time or place.”
Last month, Tom’s legal representative informed a federal judge at a hearing about the embezzlement claim that his customer has actually had “issues of his mental competence.” Tom, who telephoned in, spoke just as soon as to let the judge hear his voice and when asked to discuss what took place to the cash he was implicated of embezzling, his legal representative informed the judge, “I’ve advised him to decline that,” according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
