Friday, June 24, 2011 Heiress's nurse inherits $30 million — but should she? (msnbc.com)
The wealthy recluse's bequest to her nurse and doctor raises serious ethical questions.
See article by Arthur Caplan, Ph.D., is director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43516963/ns/health-health_care/ Wednesday, December 15, 2010 Internet Estate Planning Forms
A colleague posted the following response in a professional listserve discussion about how to respond when a client asks about using online estate planning documents instead of hiring an estate planning attorney:
"I have a physician client who asked me to set up a Professional Limited Liability Company for his practice. At our first appointment, he asked me why could he not just go to the internet and pull up the necessary forms. I told him he was welcome to do so; just as I could go to the internet, diagnose my medical condition, and then order the prescriptions myself.
He sat down and said, 'OK, where do we start?'" |