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Do the Young Adults in Your Family Have Estate Planning Documents?

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This week is National Estate Planning Awareness Week, which is designated by Congress to educate people about the importance of estate planning. Additionally, it serves as a nice annual reminder to review your estate planning...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Measuring Your Marbles: The World of Powers of Attorney

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Because this writer is now of “that age” and the topic of senior mental infirmity seems to be a focal point of the 2024 Presidential race, I have been watching a podcast about powers of attorney and their cousins the...more

Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C.

Safeguarding Your Loved Ones: Top Five Measures to Protect Against Elder Fraud and Abuse

As our loved ones age, it is crucial to ensure their safety and well-being, especially in the face of potential threats like elder fraud. Protecting older family members from financial exploitation requires proactive measures...more

Lerch, Early & Brewer

Planning for the Future: Gaining Peace of Mind Through an Advance Directive

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Though some situations cannot be avoided, legal documents can be employed to clarify your wishes and priorities. If you become debilitated by an illness or injury, an advance directive can detail which treatments and...more

Poyner Spruill LLP

Standby Guardianship

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What happens when someone who is responsible for an incapacitated family member or a minor child becomes no longer able to do so?  For a Guardian serving under court ordered authority, the appointment process for a successor...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

When to Consider a Change in your Estate Planning Documents

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As estate planning attorneys, we not only discuss with clients the importance of having estate planning documents in place, but also the importance of updating documents when life changes. As a rule of thumb, estate planning...more

Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC

[Webinar] Living Wills: What They Are and Why You Need One - May 26th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET

More than 50% of Americans lack an estate plan, which can lead to tricky situations down the road when a loved one gets sick or passes away. A living will, or advanced directive, in particular, can be a critical document in...more

Weintraub Tobin

But I’m Too Young To Have A Will!

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Planning for the end of one’s life, or potential incapacity, is probably something an individual in their 20’s, 30’s, or even 40’s does not want to contemplate. Even those in their later years might find it a difficult topic...more

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Legislative Changes to the Washington Mental Health Advance Directive Law Creates Opportunity for Expanded Use

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Recent legislative changes (ESSB 5370) to the Washington Mental Health Advance Directive law should broaden its use in behavioral health and provide an important and updated decision-making model form for individuals...more

Dentons

Living Will and Medical Directives in Light of COVID

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First and foremost, let’s address a common misconception we’re seeing right now: a Living Will is NOT the same as a Last Will and Testament. The terms “living will” and “medical directives” are hot topics currently as many...more

Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

2020 Mid-Year Vermont Health Care Update

Lawmaking in the COVID Era - The legislature adjourned Friday June 26 at 8:41 p.m. Sort of. After holding what was nearly the longest and certainly the strangest session in history – half of it remotely – the legislature has...more

Holland & Hart LLP

Will Normal Advanced Directives be Sufficient for COVID-19?

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While we deal with an unprecedented global pandemic which alters life as we know it for all of us, COVID-19 brings up concerns regarding our clients’ Advanced Directives that were prepared and signed during “normal” times. ...more

Cranfill Sumner LLP

COVID-19: Top 5 Estate Planning Essential Tools

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Amid the chaos of COVID-19, estate planners and elder law attorneys across the country are busy fielding calls and questions about how to prepare for the global pandemic. After all, aside from drafting and executing estate...more

Conn Kavanaugh

An Ounce of Prevention...

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As the saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. That is a message that we have all been getting as the COVID-19 virus spreads. Don’t panic, cover your cough, stay home when sick, and above all else, wash...more

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New Year's Resolutions for your Estate Plan

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Many of us love to make New Year’s resolutions – with a fresh, clean calendar laid out before us, the possibilities seem endless! But that vast expanse of “what might be” can also be overwhelming. So, if estate planning is on...more

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Health Care Proxies in Massachusetts: Have the document, then have the conversation

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In Massachusetts, communicating and enforcing our health care wishes is a two step process. First, we must have the document. Under our state laws, a health care proxy must be in writing, be executed properly, and must name a...more

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Discussing Death and Dying

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A morbid topic? Of course! But for our older clients and their adult children in the sandwich generation (young children of their own and aging parents) having the discussion can be extremely beneficial to both the elder and...more

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

Insight on Estate Planning - April/May 2019: A second walk down the aisle can complicate estate planning

An estate planning rule of thumb is to review (and, if necessary, revise) one’s estate plan in light of major life events. Such events include a marriage, birth of a child and a divorce. A second marriage also calls for an...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

"Your "Baby" is Heading to College - Any Estate Planning Documents Needed?"

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While we may know better, an 18 year old college student is generally considered an adult under New York law. Your rights as a parent to make decisions for your child change suddenly when he/she turns age 18. You no longer...more

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Isn’t a Power of Attorney Just for Old People, Right? Wrong!

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Why Young Adults Need Power of Attorneys - When children turn 18, they legally become adults. If there was a catastrophic life event which rendered them unable to make their own life decisions, their parents no longer...more

Baker Donelson

Final Rule Implements Quality Payment Program under MACRA

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If you are a physician, mid-level provider, or work with those providers, then you have been bombarded with new acronyms for new programs and promises to remove older acronyms from your Medicare vocabulary. Medicare...more

McAfee & Taft

New OkPOLST form designed to improve end-of-life and crisis care

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Beginning Friday, August 26, 2016, Oklahomans have another tool available to them for use in planning end-of-life care and treatment. It’s called an OkPOLST, which stands for Oklahoma Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining...more

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