Guardian found in contempt in veteran's case

Guardian found in contempt in veteran's case
Aug 10, 2012
Written by
Walter F. Roche Jr.
The Tennessean

The court-appointed guardian of a now deceased Vietnam veteran has been found in contempt of court and threatened with an indefinite jail term while a specially appointed master tries to unravel what became of thousands of dollars of the veteran’s assets.

In a case which one participant says is one of a kind, the former guardian, George Phillips, has been ordered to repay the estate of his uncle, Harold C. Hill, for thousands of dollars in rent payments while Hill was a permanent resident at the Alvin C. York Veterans Medical Center in Murfreesboro.

Phillips was, in effect, paying himself since he was Hill’s landlord.

Dozens of payments from Hill’s bank account have been challenged going back to 2005 when he was first placed in a guardianship.
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