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  • Modernizing Conservatorship Law to Better Help & Protect Californians Most in Need of Care
    Modernizing Conservatorship Law to Better Help & Protect Californians Most in Need of Care

    (Excerpt Source) Governor Newsom signed Senate Bill 43 which significantly updates California’s conservatorship laws for the first time in more than 50 years. Californians experiencing serious mental ...

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  • What Is a Disability Panel and How Does It Work?
    What Is a Disability Panel and How Does It Work?

    Although it can be an uncomfortable topic, the possibility of becoming incapacitated is often overlooked in drafting revocable living trusts. Placing your money and property in a living trust can ...

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  • Things to Consider Before You Retire
    Things to Consider Before You Retire

    After many years of hard work, it's finally time to retire and focus on your next phase of life. But before you begin this next chapter, you need to make sure that you have fully thought through this ...

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  • How to Prove You Were Mentally Competent When Creating Your Estate Plan
    How to Prove You Were Mentally Competent When Creating Your Estate Plan

    While we all want to believe that our family and loved ones will honor our wishes expressed in our estate plan, contests are more common than you might think. Maybe a family member doesn't receive ...

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  • Biden administration vows tougher oversight of poor-performing nursing homes with safety issues
    Biden administration vows tougher oversight of poor-performing nursing homes with safety issues

    The Biden administration announced plans Friday to toughen oversight of the nation's poorest-performing nursing homes with escalating fines and terminating federal funding for the homes that fail to ...

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  • Preventing Financial Exploitation of the Elderly
    Preventing Financial Exploitation of the Elderly

    With more people living into their eighties and nineties, elder abuse is becoming increasingly common. Have you seen the 2020 Netflix movie I Care a Lot about the manipulative legal guardian who ...

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