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Legacy Law Center is proud to participate in Senior Living Week once again this spring. Each year, our law firm hosts a booth at the Expo, and we enjoy getting to meet a wide variety of attendees and other professionals. Terrence A. Bertram, our firm’s senior attorney, will be speaking on some estate planning basics that everyone should know.
Legacy Law Center is a firm in Ann Arbor that particularly specializes in elder law and estate planning. The specific areas of law we practice include wills and trusts; powers of attorney to cover both health care decisions and financial and legal decisions; decedent’s estates; Medicaid and Veteran’s benefits counseling and qualification; and guardianship and conservatorship law. Additionally, we serve as probate mediators, or neutral parties trained in facilitating peaceful resolutions among family members about issues that arise in caring for an aging loved one.
Terry’s presentation will cover the types of documents that should comprise a complete estate plan, and how to go about making the decisions and elections required in your plan. Many interesting things are currently happening in the estate planning arena, so Terry will also have his pick of an array of special topics to cover in his presentation. I will address just two of them here.
One topic that is of perennial interest and importance is the need to have a valid health care power of attorney so that someone you trust always has the authority to make medical decisions for you in the event that you cannot. Health care powers of attorney are a vital piece of your estate planning tool kit, yet statistics show that far too many people are still putting off executing this simple document that can save so much pain and uncertainty for your loved ones.
Second, since last October, we’ve been kept particularly busy by changes in the laws that govern powers of attorney in Michigan. One of the main changes is a new requirement that your durable power of attorney have a signed acceptance page. In effect, the person you nominate to act on your behalf, if you become unable to do so, now has to sign an agreement stating that they will act in your best interest. Powers of attorney that were executed prior to October 2012 are still effective, but because banks and financial institutions are not required to accept them, we have recommended to our clients that they consider an update.
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Back in 2010, Dr Meggen Gondek and I organised a double session at the Leeds International Medieval Congress on the topic of early medieval stone monuments and memory. Since then, we have been working on a book project with our PhD student Joanne Kirton, exploring a triad of themes in the study of early medieval stone monuments from the British Isles and Scandinavia.
The book presents new research the materialities, biographies and landscape contexts of early medieval inscribed and sculpted stone monuments.
You can explore some of the ideas and approaches in my keynote lecture to the Runes, Monuments and Memorial Carvings Network colloquium held at the University of Chester earlier this year and organised by Jo and Meggen.
This book will be the first of its kind. For while there has been a growing body of research on each of these themes, particularly the theme of the cultural biography of monuments, applied to the early medieval period (c. AD 400-1100), this book brings detailed case studies and original research on these three interleaving themes together in a series of exciting new studies.
The Biographies and Audiences of Late Viking-Age and Medieval Stone Crosses and Cross-Decorated Stones in Western Norway