Virginia Elder Law and
Forensic Mental Health Issues
A. Involuntary Civil Commitment and Judicial Medical Consent
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What are the public mental health
emergency intervention numbers in the Richmond, Virginia, area? Click here
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Who is the judge on call for civil
commitment and medical consent hearings in the City of Richmond, Virginia?
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What is "civil commitment"?
How can this legal process help me get psychiatric care for my family member
whom I think is so mentally ill that he won't accept treatment but can't
take care of himself, or is dangerous to himself or someone else? How can
his doctor or I obtain consent for medical treatment when he has not appointed
a health care agent, and doesn't have a guardian or anyone else to speak
for him?
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For Answers To These and Other
Virginia
Forensic
Mental Health Questions, click here
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Virginia Medical Consent Forms For
Practice Before Virginia Circuit Court or Special Justice, click
here
B. Adult Guardianship and Conservatorship In Virginia.
For general information,
a primer for lawyers and social workers; a guardianship data survey for
the attorney's use in preparing the necessary court pleadings; and the
form of doctor's report required by the statute:
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"Virginia Conservatorship And Guardianship:
A Practical Guide For Lawyers and Social Workers" (Adobe
.pdf format), click here
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Thompson & McMullan, P.C., Virginia
Guardianship Data Form, click here
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Thompson & McMullan, P.C., Virginia
Report of Incapacity Form, click here
C. Virginia Medicaid Issues
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For Mr. Majette's "Public Benefits Estate Planning Questionnaire"
(published 2000) Adobe.pdf
format), click here.
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For Mr. Majette's monograph,
"SSI and Medicaid Issues in Trust Estate Planning For Disabled Persons"
(published 2002) (Adobe
.pdf format), click here
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For Mr. Majette's Outline, "Practical Elder Law Entitlements:
SSI and Medicaid - 2002 " (published 2002) (Adobe.pdf
format), click here
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For unpublished July, 1999, broadcast amendment to the
Virginia Medicaid Manual, increasing burial set aside to $3,500 (except
for married persons, whose fund is reduced to $1,500), (Adobe
.pdf format), click here
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For Mr.
Majette's Summary of Medicaid Spousal Impoverishment Rules, especially
helpful as a checklist to attorneys in the initial conference setting,
(Adobe
.pdf format), click here
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For Mr. Majette's Outline, "Medicaid and Medicare Issues
in Tort and Worker Compensation Settlements," an adjunct to the 2002
Virginia CLE telephone seminar entitled, "Structured Settlements in Virginia
Revisited," (Adobe
.pdf format) click here
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For the Current Official Virginia
Medicaid Position, click here
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To search the Virginia Medicaid
Plan, click here
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Table of contents, Chapter 8, Estate
Planning In Virginia, Medicaid and Powers of Attorney, click here
D. Will, Power of Attorney,
Trust Questionnaire
E. Reverse Mortgage Information
Updated July 23, 2001.
Copyright, 2001, by R. Shawn Majette.
All rights reserved.