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    <title>Will Your kids Get Your Estate?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[If you die today, who will take care of your children, will they be wards of the state depending on charity? 
What can you do to protect the ones you love!]]></description>
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      <title>You’re Health Care Proxy and who will take control?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[There's no simpler estate planning document than a health care proxy in which you name someone to make medical decisions for you if you're incapacitated. You can pick up a standard proxy form for $2.50 at any legal stationery store and fill it in without a lawyer's help.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Who Will Handle Your Health Care Proxy</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[There's no simpler estate planning document than a health care proxy in which you name someone to make medical decisions for you if you're incapacitated. You can pick up a standard proxy form for $2.50 at any legal stationery store and fill it in without a lawyer's help.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Living Will And Durable Power Of Attorney For Health Care</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A Living Will is a legal document addressing only deathbed considerations; a client unilaterally declares his/her desire that life-prolonging measures be discontinued when there is no hope of ultimate recovery. 
On the other hand, people use a Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care to appoint someone to make all healthcare decisions, limited by certain elections regarding deathbed issues.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>LEGACIES</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[If you don't write a will, your loved ones will pay for it after you're gone.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Understanding A Living Will</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Many serious illnesses such as cancer, failure of major organs (kidney, heart, liver, or lung), and serious brain disease such as Alzheimer's dementia may be considered irreversible early on.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Who Will Handle Your Health Care?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[There's no simpler estate planning document than a health care proxy in which you name someone to make medical decisions for you if you're incapacitated. You can pick up a standard proxy form for $2.50 at any legal stationery store and fill it in without a lawyer's help.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>Legal Helpmate</author>
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      <title>Living Will And Durable Power Of Attorney For Health Care. What Is The Difference?</title>
      <link>http://www.legalhelpmate.com/news/living-will-news-1.aspx</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A Living Will is a legal document addressing only deathbed considerations; a client unilaterally declares his/her desire that life-prolonging measures be discontinued when there is no hope of ultimate recovery.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Choosing Who Will Handle Your Health Care Proxy</title>
      <link>http://www.legalhelpmate.com/news/living-will-news-6.aspx</link>
      <description><![CDATA[There's no simpler estate planning document than a health care proxy in which you name someone to make medical decisions for you if you're incapacitated. You can pick up a standard proxy form for $2.50 at any legal stationery store and fill it in without a lawyer's help.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>Legal Helpmate</author>
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      <title>Understanding Living Will: Irreversible condition, Artificial Nutrition and Hydration</title>
      <link>http://www.legalhelpmate.com/news/living-will-news-2.aspx</link>
      <description><![CDATA[&quot;Artificial nutrition and hydration&quot; means the provision of nutrients or fluids by a tube inserted in a vein, under the skin in the subcutaneous tissues, or in the stomach (gastrointestinal tract). 
&quot;Irreversible condition&quot; means a condition, injury, or illness:]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>Legal Helpmate</author>
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      <title>Understanding Living Will: Life-Sustaining Treatment, Terminal Condition</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Life-sustaining treatment means treatment that, based on reasonable medical judgment, sustains the life of a patient and without which the patient will die. The term includes both life-sustaining medications and artificial life support such as mechanical breathing machines, kidney dialysis treatment, and artificial hydration and nutrition. The term does not include the administration of pain management medication, the performance of a medical procedure necessary to provide comfort care, or any other medical care provided to alleviate a patient's pain.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>North Carolina Living Will General Statutes,
Right to a natural death, Procedures for natural death in the absence of a declaration. - Part I</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[You have a basic right to control the decisions about your medical care, including the decision to have extraordinary means or artificial nutrition or hydration withheld or withdrawn if your condition is terminal and incurable or if you are in a persistent vegetative state.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Minnesota Law Regarding Advance Directives</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) is a federal law passed by Congress in 1990 which requires providers to inform all adult patients about their rights to accept or refuse medical or surgical treatment and the right to execute an "advance directive]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>North Carolina Living Will General Statutes,
Right to a natural death, Procedures for natural death in the absence of a declaration. - Part II</title>
      <link>http://www.legalhelpmate.com/news/living-will-news-5.aspx</link>
      <description><![CDATA[You may revoke your living will by communicating this desire to your doctor. You may use any means available to communicate your intent to revoke. Your mental or physical condition is not considered, so you do not need to be of sound mind. Someone acting on your behalf may also tell your doctor that you want to revoke your living will. Revocation is effective only after your doctor has been notified.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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