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Creating And Sustaining Interdisciplinary Guardianship Committees, Carolyn L. Dessin, Julia R. Nack, Judge Thomas Swift
Creating And Sustaining Interdisciplinary Guardianship Committees, Carolyn L. Dessin, Julia R. Nack, Judge Thomas Swift
Carolyn L. Dessin
Over the past two decades, guardians, advocates, and the judiciary have been working at the national level to improve guardianship law and practice. This work was set in motion by a series of more than 200 Associated Press Wire Stories about guardianship abuses that were published in the mid-1980s. Over the next decade, guardians and other interested parties built relationships and established an association dedicated to improving guardianship. In the year 2000, members of the National Guardianship Association (“NGA”) wrote and formally adopted “Standards of Practice” for guardians. In 2001, at the Wingspan Conference held at Stetson University, other national …
Acting As Agent Under A Financial Durable Power Of Attorney: An Unscripted Role, Carolyn L. Dessin
Acting As Agent Under A Financial Durable Power Of Attorney: An Unscripted Role, Carolyn L. Dessin
Carolyn L. Dessin
The financial durable power of attorney, also known as a durable power of attorney for property management, is a creature of fairly recent origin. The estate planning bar created it to provide an effective alternative to guardianship or conservatorship proceedings when people become incompetent or incapacitated. Additionally, there was a sentiment that the wealthy had an effective way of dealing with potential disability by creating a funded inter vivos trust, and that such a device was not available to most individuals because of the prohibitive cost. Since its creation, the financial durable power of attorney has become an extremely popular …