A Chattanooga attorney for Life Care Centers of America founder Forrest Preston calls the move by Aubrey Preston to be named his father’s conservator “a personal family matter” that will be worked out without harming the company.
Meanwhile, Aubrey Preston, who filed for conservatorship Oct. 29 in Bradley County Chancery Court, said in new court papers that others who may seek the status shouldn’t be considered.
Attorney William Horton said in a phone call that his client, Forrest Preston, is an icon in the nursing home industry, worked hard to create the business that’s one of the largest of its kind in the nation and that management of the company is strong.
He said Preston, 91, is elderly, but Cleveland, Tennessee-based Life Care has “sound management. It’s a good team.”
“I’m confident it will get resolved,” Horton said about the court action. “I think it will work out OK.”