If people have a right to refuse medical treatment (even when doing so could damage their health), they should also have a right to self-medicate (even when this means they put their health at risk). Flanigan argues respecting people's right to self-medicate requires: (i) ending pro- ...
Legal incompetency can also refer to a lack of legal qualification of a person, 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 pr...
In Georgia, in order to have someone declared incompetent, you must file a petition in the probate court in the county where the person lives. Although Georgia law does not require that you are represented by a lawyer to file the petition, many judges will not permit this type of petition ...
Putin, tend to have some level of competence in order to accomplish that, but dictators who simply get one, E.G. Kim Jong Il, can be as incompetent as they like. The success of democracies is not that the people in power were too incompetent to take over. It is a combination of ...
“Most estate planning attorneys don’t use springing POAs because they create more 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...
In Pharmaceutical Freedom Professor Flanigan argues we ought to grant people self-medication rights for the same reasons we respect people’s right to
“Congratulations President Donald Trump. Ready to work together as we have done for four years,” French President Emmanuel Macron said.“With your convictions and with mine. With respect and ambition. For more peace and prosperity.” “On behalf of myself ...
to allow us to unwind the capitalist revolution against the medieval and feudal landlords of the middle ages to where um to like i’m imagining guys that own factories in like manchester so someone like Engels, their whole goal was to drive down the salary they would have to pay their ...
The advocate's role in truth finding in the Star Chamber was such that if a legal representative failed to vouch for their client's version of the truth, the client was precluded from presenting their version of the truth. And instead was deemed to have simply confessed. One of the weapons...
is typically final and can't be undone after an individual adds another’s name to the title of a piece of property, Certain exceptions that can be pursued through the courts, however, such as in circumstances of fraud or financial exploitation of those deemed to be legally incompetent. ...