Some centers will, under state law, perform medical procedures on incapacitated persons who don't want them.

These included housewives, students in school, and incapacitated persons.

They are also trained in helping the incapacitated person recover once successfully restrained.

There would be liability, in my opinion, if the agent did something differently than the incapacitated person had previously expressed.

In practice, special considerations arise only with respect to minors and mentally incapacitated persons.

An agreement made by incompetent parties (Incapacitated Person) is void.

The ruling opens the possibility of a proxy deciding that an incapacitated person should be allowed to die.

An incapacitated person living in a place which he does not own (e.g. a nursing home)

One court official told the grand jury that a guardianship case "goes into a 'black hole"' when an incapacitated person dies.

As with minors however, an incapacitated person is bound by statute regarding contracts for necessaries.

"The court is basically allowing an incapacitated person to do what a competent person can now do," she said.

Any Finnish citizen over the age of 18 was eligible for candidacy, apart from incapacitated persons and professional soldiers.

In conservatorship, a fiduciary handles both the personal affairs and paying the debts of an incapacitated person.

This document appoints an attorney-in-fact to function in place of the incapacitated person, from simple check writing and bill paying to important health-care decisions.

The new proposals primarily address situations in which, like Ms Schiavo, the incapacitated person has not done so.

A non-entry rescue involves attempting to extricate an incapacitated person without having anyone else enter the confined space.

Procedures and court review have been established, dependent on the area of jurisdiction, to prevent exploitation of the incapacitated person by the guardian.

A. If the agent can with reasonable degree of certainty say that this is what the incapacitated person would have done, there would be no liability.

"That's a mentally incapacitated person.

In addition, for the purposes of completing returns of information or transfer forms, the details supplied must be those of the incapacitated person.

Other jurisdictions, such as Kentucky, eliminate the legal concept of "mental age" and treat sexting with a mentally incapacitated person as a specific crime.

A wristlet is a cloth strap that is used to cinch tightly around the wrist or ankle of an incapacitated person.

Marriage also grants a spouse automatic "medical power of attorney "--the legal authority to make medical decisions for an incapacitated person.

The report said lack of communication between courts that supervise guardianships and those that handle estates after an incapacitated person dies also helped make fraud possible.

The Inland Revenue has published this extra-statutory concession to enable incapacitated persons in Scotland to hold Tessas.