not measured in terms of mental ability but eligibility to act. In other words, a person deemed legally incompetent does not have the power to enter a legal contract. Legal incompetency can also mean that a professional, such as a physician, is unfit to adequately perform her duties. ...
Re: "learnt many things about how not to run a company" > What's being discussed is promoting incompetent employees to a position where they can't break anything. Had a similar thing at a research institute in Canada. An "engineer" was appointed (inter alia) to be in charge of a VA...
There arestill logistical problemsthat would have to be overcome should Miller’s deportation plan come to fruition. Homan said this week that he’d double the ICE presence in sanctuary cities like New York if needed, but ICE is already finding itself shorthanded. There’s also a shortage...
Instead, designated guardians ought to determine what is in the incompetent person's best interest and choose for them. "Such an approach", Flanigan writes, "would make all the gatekeeping functions of the prescription drug system available to patients who would prefer not to have legal and ...
In Georgia, courts presume that an adult is competent to manage her own life and affairs unless evidence proves otherwise. Having a person declared incompetent means that the court, after hearing the evidence, decides that the individual cannot take care of herself and requires the help of a le...
200. And I spent about 10 years in that cul-de-sac just going round and round and round. And that really was deleterious to my mental state. The depression that comes with being a debt peon is really, until you experience it, it is something else. And then around 2017, I think it...
On non-risk sensitive accounts of competence, the threshold of competence people have to meet can be set independently of the risk or of the person’s values. On these accounts, it may not be necessary to have a two-way conversation to establish the threshold. What is inescapable, however,...
Wade, but it’s the first to override a 15-week ban, the policy conservatives have long argued is a “compromise” embraced by a majority of the public. The initiative legalizes abortion access through fetal viability — about 22 to 24 weeks — and all...
problems than they’re designed to solve,” says Farr. For example, let’s say that you define the “springing” condition as your being deemed incompetent by two physicians. In a case like that, the document is useless if for whatever reason you refuse to show up for a doctor’s visit...
Choosing the best form of ownership for joint property can simplify things if one of the owners passes away. Joint tenancy is commonly used to avoid probate, which can be a lengthy, costly, and public process of distributing a deceased person's assets in court. Risks of Joint-Owned Property...