Teleconference on Client’s Diminishing Capacity

The National Business Institute is sponsoring a 90-minute teleconference on April 21, 2011 entitled Preparing and Dealing with the Client’s Diminishing Capacity. A description of the program is below:

In honor of the fourth annual National Health Care Decisions Day, NBI brings you an attorney’s guide to helping clients prepare for diminishing capacity. Planning for incapacity is a sensitive topic for most clients, but putting the right decisions in place now could save their family money, time and, most importantly, the agony of guessing at their life/death wishes later. Help your clients make these monumental decisions while thinking clearly and keep the control of their finances and health decisions to the very end. Register today!

• Determine what role the settlor will play by weighing the pros and cons of establishing an irrevocable trust over a revocable trust.
• Understand the uses and limitations of a durable power of attorney.
• Effectively guide your clients through decisions on prolonging life with medical treatments.