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The Morality Of Choice: Estate Planning And The Client Who Chooses Not To Choose, Janet L. Dolgin
The Morality Of Choice: Estate Planning And The Client Who Chooses Not To Choose, Janet L. Dolgin
Seattle University Law Review
The Symposium focuses around two hypotheticals. The question posed about each-whether it is ethical for an estate lawyer to represent spouses, one of whom chooses subservience to the interests of the other-provokes discussion of a broad set of concerns about the scope and meaning of the contemporary family, and about the appropriate parameters of legal representation of family members.
Love Among The Ruins: The Ethics Of Counseling Happily Married Couples, Teresa Stanton Collett
Love Among The Ruins: The Ethics Of Counseling Happily Married Couples, Teresa Stanton Collett
Seattle University Law Review
This Article explores the professional tension experienced by lawyers when clients embrace an ideal of marriage as "the two shall become as one," in a legal system that has repudiated this understanding in favor of the "reality" of marriage as an association dedicated to the individual fulfillment of the man and woman involved. Part II describes the three purposes of estate planning that define the parameters of any proposed representation. Estate planning lawyers assist clients in minimizing taxes, directing gifts to particular beneficiaries, and insuring the continuing care of loved ones. The decision to accept or reject proposed representation often …