Kentucky Bar Ass'n v. Edwards

*558 OPINION AND ORDER

While acting as co-curator managing the financial affairs of his disabled ward, Terry Ray Edwards1 wrote checks to himself totaling $78,000 from his ward’s funds; sold his ward’s home without court approval; failed to file the required accountings with the court; and paid himself $20,810 in fees from the ward’s funds.

Edwards’s activities resulted in a Bar Complaint against him, for which the Inquiry Commission issued a four-count Charge for violating Kentucky Supreme Court Rules (SCR) 3.130-1.8(a)(1), 3.130-3.4(c), 3.130-8.3(b), and 3.130-8.3(c).2 Edwards filed an initial…