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Texas Employment Attorneys
Senate Panel Approves End-Of-Life Bill
A South Dakota Senate committee has recommended that close friends should be added to the list of people who can be consulted to help make medical decisions for incapacitated people. State law allows people to sign living wills that spell out what treatment doctors should provide in cases where death is imminent and those people are unconscious and unable to communicate. People also can sign a durable power of attorney designating someone who can make those medical decisions. But in cases where people have not signed a living will or a durable power of attorney, doctors are supposed to consult relatives to determine what care to provide for incapacitated patients. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a measure providing that when no relative is available, doctors could consult a close friend who is familiar with the patient's wishes for end-of-life medical care.
Take steps to protect children from themselves
Q:My wife and I retired four years ago when we were 67 and 69, respectively. We own our home and some securities accounts, but our largest assets are our IRAs that were created when we rolled over our 401(k)s at the time of retirement. We have long-term care insurance and, based on our incomes and lack of debt, we doubt we will use up our assets before we die. Which brings us to our question: We have three children, each of whom is married and has a heart of gold; however, they all stay in debt. We are concerned that if we leave our three children as contingent beneficiaries of our IRAs when both of us are dead, our hard-earned money will go up in smoke, and our children will draw out the IRAs, pay the income taxes and spend the difference. Our lawyer set up trusts in our wills to protect our children from themselves when it comes to our house and stocks, but he told us there is no way to protect the IRAs.
Liberty Counsel Helps After-School Christian Clubs Win Equal Access
A public school district in Ohio has halted what one attorney called blatant discrimination against a Christian after-school club. Now, after receiving a demand letter from the Florida-based legal firm Liberty Counsel, district officials have agreed to stop treating a Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) "Good News Club" unfairly. Officials at Akron City Schools had allowed the Boy Scouts and other after-school programs to hand out information and permission slips to students to take home to their parents. However, requests from CEF, which sponsors local Good News Clubs for children, to hand out its materials were denied. School district administrators said the club could not distribute its literature, even though secular clubs and community organizations were freely allowed to distribute theirs.
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