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Title: Disciplinary Counsel v. Romaniw
Author : Ohio Supreme Court
Release Date : January 28, 1998
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 57 KB

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In April 1995, the Cuyahoga County Probate Court appointed respondent, Chrystine Romaniw of Cleveland, Ohio, Attorney Registration No. 0003596, as guardian of the estate of Natalia Bojko, an eighty-one-year-old person adJudged to be incompetent by reason of mental disability. Bojko died testate in February 1996. In December 1996, the court removed respondent as guardian of the Bojko estate for failure to turn over estate assets and file a final account. Based upon a report by the successor guardian, and after notice and an opportunity for a hearing that respondent did not attend, the court found a shortage of $77,436.62 in the Bojko guardianship account. The court also set aside an entry awarding fees to respondent in the amount of $4,843.75 because the respondent had not performed all the services set forth in her application. Finding that respondent improperly and repeatedly used funds of the ward, Bojko, for respondents own benefit, the court ordered respondent to pay the successor guardian $77,436.62, plus fees, expenses of his investigation, and court costs.