Who Will Make Health Care Decisions On Your Behalf? A Health Care Directive is a document that directs medical treatment and medications you would want to receive when you become disabled and cannot express your own wishes. When You Become Disabled I say "when...
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Power Of Attorney
What Is A Guardianship?
Protecting Our Loved Ones It's no secret that as we age, more and more of us are going to require someone else to make decisions for us at some stage of our lives. Our needs will change and we will become more dependent on others for our health and well-being. In...
Is My Brother Misusing Money Belonging To Our Elderly Grandmother
Brother Takes Care Of Grandmother's Finances Mary lives in Saint Paul with her grandmother Marjorie, whom she has taken care of for the past four years. Her brother, Richard, offered to take care of Marjorie's finances so the grandmother signed a power of attorney for...
When A Parent Needs A Guardian
Parents Can Become Dependents, Too We are all acquainted with the process of when an orphaned minor needs a guardian until he or she becomes an adult. But what happens at the other end of the age spectrum, when the parents become physically or mentally disabled and...