Elder law & succession: November 2024
Decisions on severance by divorce, the essential validity of a will, payment of estate debts, and informal wills and costs. By DARRYL BROWNE.Key decisions Re…
The tangled web of granny flat arrangements
A parent and child co-habiting with the intermixing of financial and proprietary interests is fraught with difficulties. By RICHARD McCULLAGH.Snapshot Informal granny flat arrangements were…
The elderly and their medical treatment: enduring guardianship and advance care directives
Many people are concerned that they should not be forced to linger on in old age or in states of advanced physical or mental decrepitude,…
Capacity, dementia and neuropsychology
The Office of the Legal Services Commission is increasingly receiving complaints that lawyers have accepted instructions from elderly people who lack decision-making capacity. By LISE…