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You sign a paper your pastor calls "just administrative" - and lose everything

You sign a paper your pastor calls "just administrative" - and lose everything

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A retired school principal signs “just administrative” church paperwork and watches his life unravel-what would you have done?

You sign a paper your pastor calls "just administrative" - and lose everything

In this episode, we follow the weeks and months after a bereaved man accepts help from his pastor and signs documents described as routine church administration. The episode covers how access, trust and paperwork intersected to change his legal and financial standing and raises the question: who do you let hold your authority when you’re vulnerable?

Person: Clifford Hayes
Person: Harvey Bishop
Location: four-point-two-acre property outside Millbrook
Date: June 2019 (lockbox discovery); funeral ~22 months earlier; power-of-attorney signed 11 days after funeral
Topic: notarized power-of-attorney placed and financial accounts altered

- Eleven days after his wife’s funeral, Hayes signed a document his pastor called “just administrative,” which later proved to be a notarized power-of-attorney.
- The pastor, a licensed pastoral counselor who had done crawlspace work on Hayes’s property, visited regularly and knew the property’s hidden access points.
- Months after signing, Hayes reported missing funds and a new checking account appeared with the pastor listed as an authorized signatory.
- A fireproof lockbox containing Hayes’s original will, his late wife’s death certificate, and the notarized power-of-attorney was found upright in a septic inspection chamber on his land.
- Hayes’s longtime Wednesday calls with his daughter stopped after the pastor advised against them, a change that coincided with shifts in Hayes’s financial control.

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