<div dir="ltr">Perhaps it would be helpful to get a letter from H's physician speaking to his level of capacity and how advanced the dementia/alzheimers is. Seems like it would be difficult to assess testamentary capacity without that input. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 9:02 AM Brent Williams-Ruth <<a href="mailto:brent@williams-ruthlaw.com">brent@williams-ruthlaw.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Greetings and Happy Month End (to all invoice billers!) - </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Got a call yesterday that scheduled a consultation for next week. What my assistant received is that it is a H&W team, but the H has limited language ability AND is some stage (not disclosed how advanced) of Dementia/Alzheimers. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Without knowing more - just in the basic issue spotting - can someone have testamentary capacity if they can only answer yes or no questions. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">My concern specifically relates to the fact that they would not be able to say things like - everything goes to my spouse or to my kids. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Meeting is slated for next week and want to help if I can - but worried that this person is too far gone if they are truly limited in speech to yes or no. </div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Brent
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