Law Office of Sara Senger

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11/25/2020

Do you have an Advance Healthcare Directive ? The Advance Directive enables you to appoint someone you trust to make your healthcare wishes known if you are unable to communicate them to medical personnel.

01/01/2020

Happy New Year! A good New Year's resolution is to create or update your estate plan. This can be as simple as drafting a will, so your estate goes to the people and/or charities you value most. Call (831) 646-5424 to learn more.

12/17/2019

Make sure your estate plan is up-to-date. Do you want to update your beneficiaries? Change you executor or trustee? Update your power of attorney? Call the Law Office of Sara Senger at (831) 646-5424.

05/20/2019

Do you have an up-to-date estate plan? This should include a will or trust, a financial power of attorney and an advance healthcare directive. Contact the Law Office of Sara Senger at (831) 646-5424 to learn more.

03/07/2019

EVERYONE 18 and older should have an Advance Directive for Health Care. This document allows you to appoint someone to make your healthcare decisions if you are unable.

Remember the tragic case of Terri Schiavo? She had a heart attack at age 26, and was in a persistent vegetative state. Her husband argued Terri would not have wanted to be kept alive by means of artificial nutrition and hydration, and her parents argued in favor of the measures. The Schiavo case involved 14 appeals and numerous motions, petitions, and hearings in the Florida courts; five suits in federal district court; extensive political intervention at the levels of the Florida state legislature, Governor Jeb Bush, the U.S. Congress, and President George W. Bush; and four denials of certiorari from the Supreme Court of the United States.

This all could have been avoided if Ms Schiavo had executed an Advance Healthcare Directive. Among other provisions, it allows the person signing it to indicate whether he or she wants to be kept alive through artificial means or just be allowed to be kept comfortable and die naturally.

Sara Senger has been assisting people with Advance Healthcare Directives for 30 years.

06/10/2018

Sara Senger has been practicing elder law since 1988. Special areas of practice include Medi-Cal estate planning, special needs trusts, wills and trusts.