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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Hello, listmates,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">A client has a financial POA effective on disability. Her AIF (brother) has reason to believe that he needs to take over her finances. Her doctor at Group Health recently completed
a battery of tests that resulted in a finding of “average to severe cognitive impairment.” The doctor used this to have her driver’s license suspended. Now the doctor says he can’t sign the certification that’s attached to her POA:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">“I hereby certify that Client is disabled or incompetent within the meaning of Section 2 of the Durable Power of Attorney to which this Certification is attached.” Section 2
says: “inability to manage property and personal affairs…”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Apparently the doctor has to send it to another department at Group Health, but they say they need her consent to do this. Really.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Has anyone faced this problem and found a solution? Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black">Lisa E. Schuchman<br>
206-960-4212<br>
<a href="http://www.lisaschuchman.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">www.lisaschuchman.com</span></a><br>
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There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. - Marshall McLuhan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black">NOTE: I do not use encrypted email. Messages sent to or from my office via email are not secure and may not be protected by attorney-client privilege. This email
address is not monitored at all times. If your matter is urgent, please phone my office during regular business hours.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black">Any tax advice included in this document and its attachments was not intended or written to be used, and it cannot be used, for the purpose of avoiding penalties
under the Internal Revenue Code.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#008100">Please consider the trees before printing this document</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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