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Published September 30, 2008 04:59 pm - CARTHAGE, Mo. — After collecting more than $6,700 from Guy Sesler’s account during the last two years that he was a county ward, Rita Hunter, Jasper County public administrator, says Sesler owes her an additional $1,740 in administrative fees, plus $99 in fees for her lawyer. Administrator: Discharged ward still owes fees w/ public administrator's expense report, annual settlement and surrender settlement for her ward Guy E. Sesler By Susan Redden sredden@joplinglobe.com CARTHAGE, Mo. — After collecting more than $6,700 from Guy Sesler’s account during the last two years that he was a county ward, Rita Hunter, Jasper County public administrator, says Sesler owes her an additional $1,740 in administrative fees, plus $99 in fees for her lawyer. The amounts are listed as outstanding claims owed by Sesler’s estate, in court filings proposed for closing out the estate after Sesler was released from county guardianship in July. The document also lists as a claim a bill of $5,897 from Spring River Christian Village, where Sesler was a resident for a time until May 2007. Multiple attempts to obtain comments from Hunter and John Podleski, attorney for the public administrator’s office, have been unsuccessful. A recording on the office answering machine on Friday said the office was closed for training. At the time, Hunter and other workers were conducting a sale in Joplin. The office on occasion sells household goods on behalf of the estates of wards who have been placed in nursing homes. Probate Judge David Mouton on Thursday approved the administrator’s settlement of Sesler’s estate — noting that no objections had been filed — and cited as outstanding claims the nursing-home bill, and remaining administrative and attorney fees sought by Hunter and Podleski. The fees will be challenged, said R. Lynn Myers, a Springfield attorney who is suing Hunter on behalf of Sesler and several other wards. Myers in late July filed a class-action lawsuit asking that Hunter be removed as conservator of her more than 450 clients or be ordered to refund any fees that the court deems excessive. Arguments filed on Hunter’s behalf contend that the lawsuit should be dismissed, that objections should be filed as part of Sesler’s individual court settlement, and that the case does not meet requirements for a class action. There was no money left in Sesler’s bank account, managed by Hunter, when he was released to return home in July, according to the court documents. A refund from Autumn Place, the assisted-living home where he had lived until his release, provided some financial cushion until he began receiving income from his Veterans Affairs and Social Security retirement, Sesler said. “I went to the bank to find out my balance, and there was nothing left in the account,” he said. “But I moved out of Autumn Place in the first week of the month, so they gave me a refund for the rest of the month, and we were able to live on that.” Sesler, who is retired from the military, said he receives veterans’ and Social Security payments of about $2,000 a month. Sesler was a resident at Spring River Christian Village before Hunter was named his guardian, replacing Janice Tusinger, the former public administrator. He moved to Autumn Place in May 2007. The bill from Spring River Christian Village was filed with the court in April 2008. Sesler said all the decisions about his care, including where he lived, were made by the public administrator’s office until he was released in July. He became a ward of the county after suffering a health problem. 
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