In Oregon, there are certain statutes and conventions which funeral directors, hospitals, and others look to in determining who can make decisions concerning funerals and the disposition of a body after a person dies.
It is not uncommon for people to buy a house together with an elderly relative.
Powers of Attorney allow someone else to handle business affairs for you when you can not or do not want to handle your own affairs.
One of the most important things to remember, following a divorce, is that there are things that must still be done following the divorce.
Don’t wait to do these things, thinking that you can do them when you get around to them.
Often a person wants to leave property in his or her Will to a child.
Sometimes Judgments of Dissolution were not done as well as they could have been.
A prime example may relate to a car or a piece of real estate, such as a house.
If a person is no longer able to handle his or her own personal affairs, and thereby puts themselves or others in danger, a guardian can be appointed for the person in Oregon.
Although a Judgment of Dissolution may assign certain debts to one former spouse, the other former spouse may also still be liable on these debts.
If you were liable prior to a divorce, you are likely still liable after a divorce.
Generally, it is very difficult to move forward with health care if a person is no longer able to direct their own health care if there is not a valid Advance Directive for Health Care in place.
In some circumstances, a Medicaid recipient, or even a person who is planning to make a Medicaid application, may be able to transfer their home to children who lived in the home with them for a certain period, and who provided a certain level of care during that period.