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Estate Planning Games, Thomas L. Shaffer
Estate Planning Games, Thomas L. Shaffer
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This paper fits somehow into several years of research and conjecture on legal counseling-the study of what takes place in the law office, in one-on-one relationships between professional and client. Most of my work has been in what is called the "estate planning" field-partly because it is an emotionally elaborate professional activity that takes place in the office, and not in courts or meetings or committees; and partly because it is my primary teaching interest, the field of legal endeavor I know most about.
The "Estate Planning" Counselor And Values Destroyed By Death, Thomas L. Shaffer
The "Estate Planning" Counselor And Values Destroyed By Death, Thomas L. Shaffer
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Most lawyers would like to know more about how clients feel in law-office encounters with death, property, and giving. The immediate source of experience and information should be psychology-research psychology as well as therapeutic psychology. However, psychology has not concerned itself with the substance of the law; what is usually called "law and psychology" as an interdisciplinary area of study is confined to border areas-insanity as a criminal defense, testamentary capacity, civil commitment to mental institutions. The task of developing psychological models which reach the substance of law itself, and the dynamics of lawyer-client relationships, is one psychologists have not …