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...Another important provision of the statute is the right of the principal to appoint a monitor, like a trusted accountant, to oversee the activities of an inexperienced agent, or a family member to ensure that an agent acts according to the principal's wishes. Those who have POA must now keep records and account for every penny, which was not a requirement under the previous law, says Louis Pierro, an elder-law and estate-planning attorney in New York, adding, "The new law makes it easier to bring a civil suit against an agent who has acted inappropriately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Legal Protections for the Elderly | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

...easy for people expecting to be named as agents to slip into the POA a self-serving gift-giving provision. Because these write-ins would often be overlooked by the principal, it was possible for agents to write checks to benefit themselves and clean out a principal's bank account. Now such doings will be harder to get away with. If the principal wants to grant the agent the specific power to make gifts, the principal must initial a box on the POA authorization form, and then describe the types of gifts on a separate statutory major-gifts rider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Legal Protections for the Elderly | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

While no exact account of effects on wildlife is possible, about 200 fish were stranded by the spill’s initial surge; many other smaller organisms, including bottom-dwellers, were likely impacted by the ash. However, no evidence supports the numbers in your opinion piece...

Author: By David R. Mould | Title: A Closer Look at 'King Coal' | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

Next, I set up my account on a personal Voice Web page, where I linked my home, work and cell numbers to my new T-I-M-E number, causing all those phones to ring simultaneously when anyone calls. Now when my phones ring, I pick up whichever is most convenient. If need be, I can press * to make all my phones ring again and hand the call from my cell to my land line or vice versa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Ring to Rule Them All | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

...RIAA argue that Tenenbaum promoted the torrent and other illegal downloading activity, in violation of the ruling against him, with a post on a Twitter account devoted to his legal case called JoelFightsBack. “Interesting: a “joel” torrent list of the 30 songs is now on thepiratebay/other torrent sites and is being DL widely in protest,” Tenenbaum wrote...

Author: By Elias J. Groll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: RIAA Continues Pirating Fight | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

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