Because this is a CD audio seminar you enjoy:
- Fast, convenient learning without any out-of-office time lost;
- No travel-related expenses or complications;
- The perfect affordable way to update yourself rapidly on current laws.
The Tennessee Health Care Decisions Act became effective July 1, 2004. It governs living wills, durable powers of attorney for health care, and other forms. It sets out the requirements for an advance directive to be effective. In 2007, changes were made to the Right to Natural Death Act, the Uniform Power of Attorney Act, and the provisions on the power of attorney for health care.
The new Tennessee Attorneys Memo audio conference, Medical Directives and Powers of Attorney in Tennessee: Issues Affecting Your Clients in 2009, will give an overview of the relevant law, address common questions and concerns faced by lawyers in this area, and give practical guidance on how to ensure that clients understand how their end-of-life care wishes can be fulfilled.
In just 60 minutes, your speaker will cover:
- Interplay between Titles 32 and 34 and the Tennessee Health Care Decisions Act
- Who should prepare an advance directive (hint: not just the elderly)
- Provisions to consider incorporating in the advance directive
- Pros and cons of combining advance directives into one document
- How to talk with your client -- and how your client should talk with his or her health care agents -- about his or her end-of-life care wishes
- Keys to receiving quality end-of-life care: helping your client plan and get important information
- Selection of health care agents
- What to do after the client’s advance directives are signed
- How your client can be sure his or her advance directives will be honored
- What happens if the client’s doctor (or family) won’t honor the client’s wishes
- How to talk with the doctor about end-of-life care wishes
- What to do if family members disagree with your client’s end-of-life wishes
- The U.S. Living Will Registry
February 5, 2009
Medical Directives and Powers of Attorney in Tennessee: Issues Affecting Your Clients in 2009
is just $97.
or call (800) 274-6774
Presented by Gail Smith Bradford
Gail Smith Bradford practices law as a member of the Music Row law firm of Harris, Martin, Jones, Shrum, Bradford & Wommack. For over twenty years, Ms. Bradford has concentrated her practice in trust, estate, gift and tax planning, probate and trust administration law, elder law and business succession planning. She is certified by the Tennessee Commission on Continuing Legal Education and Specialization as an Estate Planning Specialist, one of the first attorneys certified as such by the Commission under a program established in 1994 by the Tennessee Supreme Court.
Ms. Bradford is a 1980 graduate of Vanderbilt University (magna cum laude) and received her J.D. degree in 1983 from Cornell Law School, Ithaca, New York, where she was an Editor of the Cornell Law Review. She has been given an "AV" (high to preeminent) rating by her peers through Martindale-Hubbell, a national company dedicated to evaluating attorneys’ legal ability and professional ethics.
She is a member of the Nashville, Tennessee and American Bar Associations, the Nashville Estate Planning Council (Board Member), the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA), past chairman of the Nashville Bar Association’s Estate Planning and Probate Court Committees and the Professional Advisory Boards for The Community Foundation for Middle Tennessee and the YMCA Foundation for Middle Tennessee.
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