Category Archives: Powers of Attorney

I get to openly love

Elder caring is the only field of law where I get to openly love my clients. :- Doug.

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Where’s the poetry?

Where’s the poetry in this? :- Doug.

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keep the hospital committee away

The second most important thing you can do to keep the hospital committee away is do a Power of Attorney. :- Doug.

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Short POAs

We lawyers do short POAs because we fail to see them as worthy of much time, work, and attention. :- Doug.

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Is not to prepare a Power of Attorney

To prepare a Power of Attorney Is not to only prepare a Power of Attorney It only takes an hour to prepare And then another hour to Explore it with you :- Doug.

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maps of the territory

I have maps of the territory and can act as your guide. :- Doug.

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I cannot answer your questions

I cannot answer your questions. I can only address them. Only you can answer your questions. You take in what I give you, adjust its fit and assimilate into yourself only what fits for you. :- Doug.

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Managing someone else’s money

Friends– The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (a US government agency) has recently published some plain English guides available for free download. They will soon be available in print for free, too. The guide topics are: Powers of attorney Court-appointed Guardians … Continue reading

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5 Ds for your Living Will, Health Care POA

Charlie Sabatino, in Questions and Answers submitted September 23, 2013 to the US Dept of Health and Human Services, gives Five Ds for when you should look over your existing Living Will and Health Care POA: Decade passes; Death of … Continue reading

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First, live well together….

First, live well together; second, see how the money parts can serve your living. :- Doug.

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Love letters to our families

Wills, Trusts, Powers of Attorney, Personal Care Agreements, Living Wills, end of life caring, Long-Term Caring: I help people write love letters to their families. :- Doug.

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Vending machine picture of law

Many times we have a vending machine picture of law: put in a coin, out comes a certain result, predictably. Time by time we find we are in a flowing stream with 10,000 variables floating past, each can touch us, … Continue reading

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The bigger job of Wills?

What is the bigger job of Wills, Estates, and Powers of Attorney, if not loving well? :- Doug.

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Our whole work

Our whole work is conversing, engaging, encountering, meeting: our whole work is bringing us to whole, our whole work is whole-making, whole-realizing. Our whole work is conversing. :- Doug.

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Work as inviting….

My work can be seen in terms of invite, free, call whole mmm. :- Doug.

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Cast your line into the water

I can be your guide, but you’ve got to cast your line into the water. :- Doug.

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Law, technicalities and guessing

Law is not solely about the technicalities: it goes beyond to what works, what is apt to work, and where peoples’ hearts want to go. All life is guessing; we must work also with art and heart. :- Doug.

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