Hospital Appointments for Wills, Powers of Attorney . . .
Neufeld Legal | Calgary, Alberta wills and estate planning lawyer, advising clients in developing and implementing their personal succession plans.
Contact Neufeld Legal PC at 403-400-4092 or Chris@NeufeldLegal.com
Being hospitalized doesn't mean that you can't get legal services, especially at a time that a lawyer might well be essential to protecting your interests and/or those of your loved ones. We understand that people find themselves in the hospital and in need of immediate legal counsel. In those circumstances, you need a compassionate and experienced lawyer who can promptly attend to those legal matters from the hospital bedside. Whether that takes the form of dealing with long overdue estate planning matters (i.e. wills, powers of attorney) or corporate/financial planning/restructuring, you need a lawyer that can not only implement those interests, but appropriately advising you as to the viability of such approaches and advising as to the possibly better options.
For though it is not our role as a lawyer to facilitate the legal interests of our clients, it is important that we present options and alternatives, while seeing out the pros and cons of those options such that the client might make an intelligent and well informed decision. Thereafter, we need to make sure that the individual's decision works and is capable of standing up against legal scrutiny. Because the unfortunate thing with legal actions undertaken while an individual is in hospital is that if they are unpopular with certain people, they might well be challenged in court at a later date. As such, we need to make sure that those legal actions are done correctly and the competency of the individual giving the directions is properly substantiated. And if that competency is lacking, that is a concern that needs to be addressed accordingly, given their inability to give legally binding directions that can withstand court challenges.
Hospital visits are necessary, but unfortunately come with additional legal cost due to the required travel time and other issues associated with timing, expedience and other legal challenges, especially when it comes to compentency and verification. These added costs can prove particularly significant; nevertheless, given the cost of not taking such action can be far more substantial, oftentimes requiring otherwise avoidable court intervention or resulting in actions that contravene one's present intentions. At the same time, getting one's legal paperwork completed consistent with one's current intentions and preferences gives hospitalized people the peace of mind to focus on making it through their medical situation, as opposed to having the added concern of legal issues bearing down on them.
For more information about attending to legal matters at the hospital, hospice or seniors home, and the associated costs involved as a result of the added time that must be expended in furtherance thereof, whether its Calgary’s Foothills Medical Centre, Peter Lougheed Centre, Rockyview General Hospital, South Health Campus, Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Cochrane Community Health Centre, Airdrie Community Health Centre or other medical facility, hospice or seniors home in metropolitan Calgary, Alberta, contact our law firm today at 403-400-4092 or Chris@NeufeldLegal.com to schedule an appointment.
* Please note that travel time and attending at the hospital / hospice / seniors home will incur additional cost and expense as compared to comparable legal work on wills, trusts, personal directives and powers of attorney.
