In a short documentary, Amanda Brown describes how disputes over elder care for her 86-year-old grandmother, Edna Mae "Mee-Mah" Royal, after her stroke tore her formerly tightly-knit family apart. As a result of the split with three of her eight children on one side and five on the other, siblings are not talking to each other and grandchildren are no longer speaking with aunts and uncles. In addition, some families stand to inherit family real estate and others do not.
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Topics: family dispute, Estate Planning
My client acts as agent for her father under a longstanding durable power of attorney. Unfortunately, tensions are developing between her and her brother who has been consulting with other attorneys about asking their father to execute a new durable power of attorney appointing him.
My client wants to know how we can stop this from happening and why the doctor's declaration that their father is no longer competent isn't sufficient.
Topics: guardianship, family dispute, Estate Planning
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