Advance Directives for Health Care, in contrast to POLSTs (Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment - see earlier article), are used to provide information and authority to substitute decision makers who are operating in a less urgent situation.
POLSTs (Physician’s Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment) and Advance Directives for Health Care are often confused.
More and more people are living together without marriage. This includes senior citizens.
This can create special problems for Medicaid.
No document constructed by humans can perfectly resolve all future conflicts.
However, if you are living together, but are not married, a formal Domestic Partnership Agreement can give a great deal of predictability to the eventual dissolution of the relationship.
Small to medium sized businesses often produce more liability than their owners realize.
Often the risk comes from areas that the business owner does not immediately focus on.
In Oregon there are potentially six kinds of protective proceedings.
This article will outline the three kinds of conservatorships that are available. An earlier article addressed the three kinds of conservatorships that are available.
In Oregon there are potentially six kinds of protective proceedings.
This article will outline the three kinds of guardianships that are available. A later article will address the three kinds of conservatorships that are available.
Often people go to great effort and considerable expense to prepare a trust.
When a person is meeting with a lawyer to discuss a Will or a Trust, or other estate planning documents, it is very important that the person be alone with the lawyer.
Although Oregon Advance Directives for Health Care (called Living Wills in some other states) must be in the form prescribed in Oregon Revised Statute (ORS) 127.531, there are two places in that form where special conditions or limitations can be inserted.