A 91-year-old resident of St. Petersburg was forced to sue her own son, who filed a lawsuit to deprive the siege of legal capacity, and before that, he expelled an elderly woman from her apartment.
According to the office for human rights in St. Petersburg, the Ombudsman’s lawyers learned about this story when the case was already being considered in court. For an elderly woman, the process itself turned out to be physically difficult, she had never sued before, she did not know all the procedures. At first, things weren’t going well for her. The guardianship and guardianship authorities took the side of the 65-year-old son.
From the position of the son, the situation looked like that the mother began to be eccentric, and he just wants to protect her from dangers. Guardianship officers took their son at his word, did not communicate with the blockade, she did not pass the examination.
Meanwhile, as the blockade survivor herself told the Commissioner for Human Rights in St. Petersburg, Svetlana Agapitova (and this version was later confirmed by the neighbors), in the nineties, the son lost his apartment and moved in with his mother. After a while, the man became addicted to alcohol and began to dissolve his hands. But the pensioner did not go to the police and stopped the neighbors’ attempts to tell law enforcement officers about what was happening, apparently hoping that over time her son’s behavior would change.
But the situation only got worse. At some point, tired of the beatings, an elderly woman moved out of her kopeck piece into a rented room, and her son began to demand title documents for the apartment. The elderly woman refused to say where the papers were, and her son sued her, trying to deprive the pensioner of her legal capacity. If he won, he could manage her apartment and pension on behalf of her mother.
When lawyers from the office of the Ombudsman in St. Petersburg began to help the blockade, things went smoothly. The lawyers ensured that the employees of the guardianship bodies spoke live with the defendant and personally made sure that she was adequately aware of the reality. As a result, the officials refused to support the son’s demands to deprive the pensioner of legal capacity. The court, having considered all the arguments, denied the son’s claim to deprive the mother of legal capacity. So now the elderly woman is still the only manager of her apartment, and her son will not be able to receive a pension for her.
But the elderly woman decided not to return to her apartment so as not to provoke her son.