This book allows you to decide whether a living will is for you and offers a plain English living will to make your wishes known and how to grant an EPA allowing those you trust to manage your affairs.
The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.
This book allows you to decide whether a living will is for you and offers a plain English living will to make your wishes known and how to grant an EPA allowing those you trust to manage your affairs.
As evidenced in the Terri Schiavo case that made national headlines, having a living will is an essential element in ensuring that the way in which you would like to spend your last days will be respected. It informs both family and doctors of your medical treatment preferences in specific situations. An ethical will is a complementary text that communicates personal values, beliefs, blessings, and advice to relatives and to future generations. It can be more meaningful to friends and family than any material possession you could bequeath to them. Together, living and ethical wills ensure that your wishes and hopes are "on the record," not to be lost, ignored, or forgotten. Offering practical and inspirational advice for people at any stage of life, Ethical and Living Wills includes: --Three recommended writing approaches to capturing our feelings for posterity --Expert information for understanding the legal and practical issues involved in documenting your medical care and treatment preferences in commonly occurring situations --Advice on when to distribute both ethical and living wills -- Tips to protect the legacy you leave in an ethical will-preparing and caring for the document you create
Best of all, your readers won't just understand wills, living trusts or financial power of attorney -- they'll create them, quickly and easily. The interactive CD-ROM lets them make: - legal wills- living trusts- healthcare directives (living wills)- powers of attorney- final arrangements documents- forms for executors- promissory notes- credit repair forms- authorizations and agreements- and more!
Elderly Clients: A Precedent Manual will assist the private client adviser tackle a comprehensive range of issues affecting the elder client including the difficult and ever-changing problems of planning for their client's possible incapacity in later life, sharing residential accommodation, care contracts, social security agents and appointees, funeral planning, receivership, wills and equity release schemes. A wealth of expertly drafted precedents covering the whole range of matters that might arise is included. Checklists assist the adviser in such matters as registering an Enduring Power of Attorney and establishing whether the client has authority to make a will or gift.