Word: survivorship
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...with Disabilities Act of 1990, which is being phased in this year, will give cancer victims explicit federal protection against on-the-job discrimination. That part of the law was largely the result of spirited lobbying by a growing network of grassroots survivor organizations. The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, an umbrella organization based in Albuquerque, N. Mex., now boasts the membership of 400 different groups across...
Barbara Hoffman, a lawyer who serves as vice president of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, told an audience of 20 at the Cronkhite Graduate Center that employers had no right to know a woman's medical information unless her condition could impede her ability to perform her duties...
...chunk, plus yearly chunks of $6,000 to each child. Another way is to put assets into life insurance, payable to a named beneficiary other than one's estate; the proceeds escape probate. Other assets can be disposed of by "joint tenancy with right of survivorship" such as joint bank accounts, which pass directly to the surviving tenant. Under that method, though, when the survivor dies, the probate process will take over unless something is done to head...