It's not easy finding someone besides overworked legal aid lawyers and law school professors willing to take on our outdated probate court system, even during an election season. Why, we've got probate judges running without opposition who raise tens of thousands of dollars from the same lawyers who practice in front of them. No, if you aren't feeding on the probate court gravy train you probably don't care. Odds are, though, that you or someone you know will run into probate. These courts handle estates; they take away parental rights and grant adoptions. They can take your freedom and dump you in a nursing home while your assets are controlled - and depleted. It took a Superior Court ruling to free 86-year-old Daniel Gross from this probate prison in Waterbury last July....