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Mental Capacity: Legal and Medical Aspects of Assessment and Treatment provides expert advice and practical, reliable working knowledge of this complex subject. An experienced elder law attorney, a physician with extensive elder care expertise, and two noted geriatric psychologists collaborated to objectively assess mental capacity. They cover: The definitions of mental incapacity and mental incompetency and how to accurately assess for both, and significant related court decisions The law as it relates to different types of mental capacity required to perform different legal transactions The medical causes, symptoms, and treatments of different types of incapacity and incompetency Steps to evaluating, contesting, and defending legal capacity In addition, the authors provide updates that contain recent caselaw on testamentary capacity, donative capacity, contractual capacity, and undue influence.
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