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Incapacity – Should You Make It Easy to Declare You Incompetent?

Recently, I have been talking a lot to my clients about whether it should be easy to declare someone incapacitated or hard. Where this comes into play is when you have a Revocable Trust and you are Trustee. If and when you become incapacitated...

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The Difference Between A Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) and Living Will?

I once had a client come in and tell me that the Living Will that their mother had didn’t work because she “coded” in the hospital and they revived her in direct contradiction to the Living Will.  I had to explain to them that a Living Will...

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There Are Only Two Things That Are Certain: Death And Taxes.

“In This World, Nothing Can Be Said To Be Certain, Except Death and Taxes” – Ben Franklin But short term, we are much more likely to become incapacitated than to die. So what does it mean to be incapacitated? It means that we can not make our...

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