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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...
...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...
...slot for the head of the junior coalition partner, though, is the Foreign Ministry, and Westerwelle has been busily boning up on international affairs. "German foreign policy has to be value-based but also directed by our interests," he says. "Naturally, you always have to take economic interests into account - we want to sell German and European products in other countries. But you always have to maintain your values...
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...
...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...