Judd M Matsunaga

Elder Law Services of California are only interested in your money and will provide the minimum amount of services for what they charge you as a retainer. I met with attorney Judd Matsunaga, who makes a lot of promises such as "We are here for you all the way through the process", etc. , which I figu...red was probably only half-true, but which turned out to be almost completely false. I'm giving them two stars because they did qualify my mother for Medi-Cal (granted, with a $1,500 per month deductible which basically makes it unusable except for emergencies), and they got all the names right on the power of attorney forms. Other than that, they did nothing. When I contacted them and said that my mother would like me to be her authorized representative so I could advocate on her behalf rather than them (since they do nothing), which means they could no longer charge a yearly retainer basically to fill out the paperwork, they became rather unhelpful. They didn't even provide the requested authorized representative paperwork (rather they sent my mother a letter saying you can find the forms on the Medi-Cal website, which you can't). My mother is disabled by a stroke and in a wheelchair. My feeling is that they just want to get a look at people's assets so that they can sweet talk them into other services, and that is what they use the Medi-Cal authorization process to do.