Michael Hackard

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MICHAEL HACKARD is a California trust and estate litigation attorney with fifty years of experience representing families in elder financial abuse, inheritance disputes, and trustee misconduct cases.

He is the author of six books on elder vulnerability and family protection: The Wolf at the Door and Inheritance Heists on financial exploitation; Alzheimer’s, Widowed Stepmothers & Estate Crimes on cognitive decline as the entry point for inheritance crime; It’s Never Just an Accident: Understanding Traumatic Brain Injury and Rebuilding Lives on traumatic brain injury, to which older adults are especially vulnerable; Making Room: A Memoir of Faith, Law and Endurance, a memoir of fifty years fighting for the abused and the vulnerable; and Stolen
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The Wolf at the Door: Undue...

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Making Room: A Memoir of Fa...

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Inheritance Heists: Reclaim...

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Making Room by Michael Hackard
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Making Room by Michael Hackard is one of those books that stays with you long after you finish it. It’s emotional, honest, and deeply human. The story explores family relationship" Read more of this review »
Making Room by Michael Hackard
"A Memoir of Rare Honesty and Grace Michael Hackard's Making Room is unforgettable. From scooting over for a guardian angel at six to surviving a brain tumor, pharmaceutical poisoning, and financial collapse, he weaves faith, law, and endurance into s" Read more of this review »
Making Room by Michael Hackard
"Making Room is a deeply personal book about Michael Hackard’s walk with God and how God’s guidance has shaped both his personal life and his professional life as a lawyer. From childhood, he has tried to “make room” for his guardian angel, and he has" Read more of this review »
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"What makes this memoir remarkable, though, is not its catalog of hardship — plenty of memoirs traffic in suffering — but the way warmth and truth refuse to be extinguished, surviving every page, every setback, every long and lightless season the auth" Read more of this review »
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