Minor Guardianships of the Person

Minor Guardianships of the Person
Author: Henry J. Plum
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024
Genre: Guardian and ward
ISBN:

"Since 2020, cases that were formerly handled in probate court are now handled by the children’s court. Attorneys who are unfamiliar with the post-2020 procedures will need a resource that outlines the substantive and procedural changes for everything from filing a petition and preparing for hearings to modifying a guardianship order or handling other post dispositional matters. The second edition of Minor Guardianships also revises discussions throughout the book to reflect insights contributed by more than 100 respondents to a 2023 State Bar of Wisconsin survey about how the minor guardianships statute has been applied in the years since it first took effect. ... Written by Attorney Henry Plum, who actively participated in the multiyear process to draft the legislation, and coauthored for the second edition by Attorney Deanna Weiss, Minor Guardianships will help you better understand of the history of minor guardianship law in Wisconsin and why there was a need for legislative changes in the first place." --

The Guardianship Book for California

The Guardianship Book for California
Author: Lisa Goldoftas
Publisher: NOLO
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2002
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0873378628

Offers instructions and advice for becoming a legal guardian, discusses alternatives to guardianship, and provides legal forms.

Letters to My Child’s Guardian

Letters to My Child’s Guardian
Author: Virginia C. Antipolo-Utt
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 809
Release: 2014-10-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1490841873

This is a wonderful gift to parents, children, and estate planning practitioners. It offers a helpful reference on many items they need to consider when selecting a guardian for minor children and provides a souvenir to cherish forever. Lorraine del Prado, Vice President, Principal Gifts & Philanthropic Initiatives at Seattle Children’s In this remarkable book, Virginia, a deeply caring and professionally accomplished person, brings what she shares with family, friends, and clients in her everyday life: compassion, wisdom, expertise, and a profound commitment to making our world a better place through the wellbeing of children and families. Al Boren, CEO of the Shasta Family YMCA I highly endorse this book! It as a valuable tool for parents . . . and the best legacy we can leave our children. Brenda Baltrusch, Career Trust Officer at Large National Bank Every parent faces the often gut-wrenching question: “Who will raise my child in the event of a disaster?” As difficult as it is to focus on dire possibilities, selecting a guardian for one’s minor child is an essential part of every parent’s will. Parents who fail to act leave their child’s guardian unprepared and may leave their child’s future, routines, and traditions up to strangers to decide. If you could spend a few moments now that would make it possible to dramatically help your child navigate a profoundly difficult time later, would you? Letters to My Child’s Guardian offers: • Many parent-attorney insights about child guardianship decisions • Identifies critical legal issues and practical choices to consider in wills and trusts • Demystifies this process for each family and provides great insight Letters creates a unique “catastrophe” resource, jumpstarts vital discussions, and guides parents to share an enduring family legacy that will captivate future generations. Through Letters parents can supplement their estate plans in a non-legally binding fashion and reveal and preserve profoundly meaningful advice. Families can use this inspirational resource to create powerful letters of encouragement, advice, and wisdom for their children. For over thirty years attorney Virginia Antipolo-Utt has provided sophisticated and compassionate estate planning counsel to her clients about wills, trusts, and guardianships. Virginia graduated from Duke University Law School, enjoys writing and cooking, and since elementary school has enjoyed serving in many diverse volunteer capacities. Virginia lives with her husband, daughter, and fur-faced friends near Seattle, Washington.

Estate Planning in Arizona

Estate Planning in Arizona
Author: Donald A. Loose
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 160494000X

Would you like to avoid probate and keep your financial affairs private? Are you interested in paying the minimum amount of estate and gift taxes? Estate Planning in Arizona is the reference you need. Written for Arizonans with little or no legal experience, this book tells you what you need to know: The basics of wills and trusts Protecting your assets Appointing guardians for your children Health care directives and living wills Taking title to real estate . . . and much more Providing you with a better understanding of the laws and issues involved in estate planning, this comprehensive, easy-to-understand book will help you to preserve wealth, protect your family, and create a winning succession plan.

Improving the Social Security Representative Payee Program

Improving the Social Security Representative Payee Program
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2007-10-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0309111005

More than 7 million recipients of Social Security benefits have a representative payee-a person or an organization-to receive or manage their benefits. These payees manage Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance funds for retirees, surviving spouses, children, and the disabled, and they manage Supplemental Security Income payments to disabled, blind, or elderly people with limited income and resources. More than half of the beneficiaries with a representative payee are minor children; the rest are adults, often elderly, whose mental or physical incapacity prevents them from acting on their own behalf, and people who have been deemed incapable under state guardianship laws. The funds are managed through the Representative Payee Program of the Social Security Administration (SSA). The funds total almost $4 billion a month, and there are more than 5.3 million representative payees. In 2004 Congress required the commissioner of the SSA to conduct a one-time survey to determine how payments to individual and organizational representative payees are being managed and used on behalf of the beneficiaries.1 To carry out this work, the SSA requested a study by the National Academies, which appointed the Committee on Social Security Representative Payees. This report is the result of that study. Improving the Social Security Representative Payee Program: Serving Beneficiaries and Minimizing Misuse (1) assesses the extent to which representative payees are not performing their duties in accordance with SSA standards for representative payee conduct, (2) explains whether the representative payment policies are practical and appropriate, (3) identifies the types of representative payees that have the highest risk of misuse of benefits, and (4) finds ways to reduce the risk of misuse of benefits and ways to better protect beneficiaries.