There was a case a few years back, some destitute gal was found living in squalor, but when they moved her they found several hundred thousand dollars in her.... you guessed it mattress....
Some do gooder decided she could not take care of herself, so the legal system appointed a lawyer as her guardian, 6 months later she was broke and her legal counsel was several hundred thousand dollars richer.....
If this was an isolated incident then that would be one thing, but another version was on ABC just a few months back..... But it was two sisters and their mom.... sisters let the courts appoint someone as a guardian to their mom which had close to a million bucks, but a year later she was broke......